Mind you....... my brother is married to someone with Borderline Personality disorder. She's a crazy violent bitch and my brother stays with her cos he is co-dependent.

I would suggest that everyone that kills their family have some sort of psychiatric condition. Jails need to be set up for rehabilitation not punishment.
The average male is bigger and stronger than the average female and one would think they could a) move out when there is escalating violence within the relationship. or b) defend themselves.

Testosterone builds strength, and estrogen reduces strength (as my dad who has prostate cancer found out).

As a female I am unable to walk about after dark without continual looking about and glancing over my shoulder for threat of danger. Most men do not experience that.

One woman dies a week in Australia due to DV. Men die too, but more often from a homosexual relationship.

If there is inequality in the way women are treated by the legal system I'm all for an inquiry. I can't help thinking however, of all the years men were legally permitted to beat their wives, have them put into psych institutions, forgiven for murdering prostitutes because obviously they deserved what they got. Men sure do jump up and down if the injustice swings occasionally against them but perhaps that's because they aren't accustomed to being the victim.

Who was the most prolific UK serial killer of all time until the turn of the century?
Not anyone you ever heard of.
HER name was Mary Ann Cotton and she killed at least 21 people before she was arrested including her husbands (plural) her son and many of the children she was hired to care for. She was known by the epithet "The Baby Farmer".
The only other who may have been worse was Denis Neilson, the Camden town murderer, who claimed to have killed more, but was only convicted of killing 17 of his homosexual lovers out of guilt and of being outed.