Adventures in the Patriarchy™: ‘Unlawful Killing’ in the UK

Men whose abusive behaviour drives women to take their own lives are more likely to get away with their crimes because of proposed law changes, justice campaigners say.

Ministers want to make it harder for inquests to pass verdicts of unlawful killing, which have been crucial in getting justice for women who killed themselves after suffering abuse.

In October last year, Georgia Barter was found to have been unlawfully killed after suffering a decade of domestic violence and abuse. In 2023, an inquest found that Kellie Sutton, whose death was classed originally as a suicide, was unlawfully killed after suffering domestic abuse.

The unlawful killing verdicts followed campaigns by the families of the women.

Harriet Wistrich, the head of the Centre for Women’s Justice, said: “We strongly oppose any reversal of the standard of proof for unlawful killing in inquest verdicts, which would set back the cause of highlighting the issue of recognising the role that domestic abuse plays in relation to the suicides of many women.

First of all, charging domestic abusers who drove their spouses to suicide with “unlawful killing” is obviously a misnomer, in that the killing in the case of a suicide, by definition, was done by the self.

If you want to charge them with something else, like accessory to killing or whatever, that might make more sense.

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The more important, primary problem with allowing the state to pursue these charges is that the UK government, or any government in the West, every major institutions of which have been hijacked by brazen misandrist feminists, simply cannot be trusted with such broad authority, where establishing clear cause and effect between abuse and suicide is difficult and largely open to interpretation, to act fairly or judiciously in the honest pursuit of justice.

On that note, it occurred to me while considering these changes that no woman is ever going to be brought up on these charges, no matter how physically or — more likely — psychologically abusive she might be to her partner who ends up killing himself, which surely happens all the time.

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So I asked ChatGPT to find any instances of women being charged with “unlawful killing” for their husbands who offed themselves.

Unsurprisingly, it found no such instances; they all went the other way.

From ChatGPT (emphasis added):

Available reporting shows:

Nearly all prosecutions in this category involve male suspects whose female partners died by suicide after alleged abuse…

Known cases of women being charged with unlawful killing because their husbands died by suicide appear to be extremely rare or undocumented.

Across all genders, only about a dozen charges have been brought in the last few years for suicides linked to domestic abuse, and only one clear manslaughter conviction exists…

No clear recorded number of women in the UK charged for unlawful killing when a husband commits suicide.

Across all suspects (mostly men), only ~12 charges have occurred in recent years and only one successful manslaughter case.

Meanwhile, in Pakistan…

Where no such “unlawful killing” laws for the men who drive their wives to suicide exist, while it’s unclear exactly what is going on here, what it certainly doesn’t appear to be is consensual on the lady’s part. 

Pakistan : Mohamad divorced his wife just because she did not serve food on time. Later, he wanted to take her back, but under Sharia law, she had to undergo halala (have sexual relations with another person). When she refused, he forced her to undergo halala with his own father. pic.twitter.com/m9r5WnLYuQ

— Baba Banaras™ (@RealBababanaras) March 10, 2026