We need to get angry – angrier – about all of this. We need to start protesting, furiously, about things like the changes to legislation that make decisions such as dropping bail conditions possible, about the cuts to council budgets that mean one in six refuges for victims of domestic violence have closed in the last eight years.

There are only 302 – each able to house just a handful of women during an epidemic whose size results in 100 murders a year – serving the whole of England and Wales. We need to fight on all fronts against the underlying idea that women’s lives are not a priority. That we do not deserve the same protection as others.

And we need to fight to change a legal and political system dominated by the sex that has to leap an apparently insurmountable hurdle to imagine what it must be like to be at the mercy of someone bigger, stronger and more powerful than you in a society built around his needs.

Because I cannot stand it. We cannot stand for this.

If you are affected, call the free 24-hour National Domestic Violence Helpline on 0808 2000 247 or visit womensaid.org.uk

Lucy Mangan says we’re not angry enough about horrific domestic violence statistics