A shocking revelation last month exposed by Women’s Aid, revealed that 1 in 2 boys and 1 in 3 girls think it is sometimes acceptable to hit a woman – emphasising the crucial need to education in this area.

The decision by Counting Dead Women to tweet the list of all the women who have been killed as a result of domestic violence this year, comes in the midst of an inquiry into the death of 20-year-old Hollie Gazzard, who was violently murdered by her boyfriend, Asher Maslin in Gloucester in February 2014.

Counting dead women: the Twitter account reporting every death from domestic violence this year