Now a petition on Change.org is campaigning to draw the offensive betting to a close and asking Paddy Power's chief executive Patrick Kennedy to donate any profits so far to a women's charity fighting violence against women.

"The brutal death of a woman at the hands of her partner is not "sport" or "entertainment" and promoting the opportunity to make money from it is a vile and offensive act which anyone with a sense of human dignity and respect for human life must reject," reads the petition page on Change.org.

It continues: "138 women died in the UK alone as a result of male violence in 2013. This type of random carelessness for the lives of women by Paddy Power is an affront to those women and their families."

Below is a copy of the petition. Click through to Change.org to sign it now.

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