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Daanika Kamal

@daanika.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Writes on VAWG in criminal law / family law & South Asian feminisms New book: global.oup.com/academic/product/dom…

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Royal Holloway @royalholloway.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Fantastic to see Dr Daanika Kamal's book, Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of ‘Bad’ and ‘Mad’ Women (Oxford University Press, 2025), has now been shortlisted for the prestigious Hart-SLSA Book Prize 2026 👏 @hartpublishing.bsky.social / @slsauk.bsky.social
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Tomorrow! Daanika’s work on excavating the legal scripts of domestic violence in Pakistan, based on extensive fieldwork, has so much to teach us all about the legal reproduction of gendered violence and legal gate-keeping of knowledge Proud of our @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social graduates always
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Warwick Criminal Justice Centre @warwickcjc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We are looking forward to hosting @daanika.bsky.social next month for a discussion on her book, ‘Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of ‘Bad’ and ‘Mad’ Women’. Join us on the 6th of Feb from 13:00-15:00. (Event is hybrid and a Teams link will be shared a week before!)
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
One of our editors, @daanika.bsky.social, presented her excellent new book at Manchester Law School. Dr Kamal’s book explores how women in Pakistan articulate their experiences of domestic violence and the ways women are stigmatised/pathologised in courts. Read here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Gender Institute @genderrhul.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Dr. Daanika Kamal’s new book (OUP) reveals how Pakistani law discredits women who report domestic abuse. Based on 100+ cases, it offers a vital feminist legal critique. 🔗 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Royal Holloway @royalholloway.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
You can now listen to more from Dr Daanika Kamal on domestic violence in Pakistan via the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast (also available on Apple and Spotify): newbooksnetwork.com/domestic-vio...
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Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Really grateful to chat with Dr Miranda Melcher about my book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social last week. If you'd like to have a listen, the podcast is available on the NBN website: newbooksnetwork.com/domestic-vio... - and on Apple Podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 03/07/2025 · 53m
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Royal Holloway @royalholloway.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Exploring the lived realities of women domestic violence victims in Pakistan. A new book by Dr Daanika Kamal from our Department of Law and Criminology highlights how prejudices against victims are captured and negotiated in the Pakistani legal system. Read more: ow.ly/oNYC50WhwrG
Dr Daanika Kamal on the left; Dr Daanika Kamal's book, Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of ‘Bad’ and ‘Mad’ Women, on the right.
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Very much looking forward to chatting about my new book at Birkbeck, University of London next week. Big thank you to @tanyaserisier.bsky.social for having me! Join us at 3pm on Thursday 3rd July - more details below: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Book Launch - Daanika Kamal, Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Mad' and 'Bad' Women
Dr Daanika Kamal gives an introductory talk on her new book, Domestic Violence in Pakistan, with a Q+A to follow.
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“This moment necessitates that we trace & map the linkages between the various forms of oppression & harm we witness, locate their manifestations in the spaces we move in, & draw on these lessons to fight back.” @norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social reflect on being feminist fugitives.
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Reflections on Fugitive Practices in the University: Labouring in the Wake of Violence - Feminist Legal Studies
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We are recruiting a fixed-term (maternity cover) Lecturer in Law in the Department of Law and Criminology at @royalholloway.bsky.social. Closing date for applications is the 25th of June, more details here: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Law (Teaching Focus)
Full Time, Fixed Term (12 months)Applications are invited for the fixed term post (maternity leave cover) of Lecturer in Law (Teaching Focus) in the Department of Law and Criminology.The Department of...
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We're having a book launch / author meets reader event at the University of Westminster for my new book on Monday the 16th of June, 17:00 to 19:30. Refreshments will be provided! Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch: Domestic Violence in Pakistan
Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'll be chatting with Prof Samia Bano about my new book at @soasuni.bsky.social this Thursday (5th June) from 1 to 2.30pm! More details attached - please join us 🌟
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 A reminder that Understanding Miscarriages of Justice is *next Wednesday* @qmul.ac.uk with speakers from Appeal, @we-are-appeal.bsky.social, the Post Office scandal ( @rebeccakhelm.bsky.social @richardmoorhead.bsky.social), the Law Commission, and many others 🚨 ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25 PROGRAMME.docx
Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25 28 May 2025 at Queen Mary, Lincoln’s Inn’s Fields, Room 3.1 Registration link: https://forms.gle/RaA9iSSFc1mmqazU9 9am Coffee/registration 9.25 am Welco...
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Publication week! ✨ My book is out this week with OUP! It reports on the everyday lived realities of women victims of domestic violence and their interactions with the Pakistani legal system in both criminal & family law contexts. Available in hardback and e-book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Wonderful to see that @daanika.bsky.social’s brilliant PhD work on women’s experiences of negotiating the Pakistani legal system in contesting gendered violence against them, will be out in the world as a book soon! Lots for all socio-legal scholars to savour here about legal scripts and subjects!
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Congratulations to one of our lovely editors @daanika.bsky.social on the listing of her important new book! Check it out.
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
TWO WEEKS TODAY!
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
UNDP's recent study from Pakistan reflects on the intersection of poverty and climate change through the emergence of "monsoon brides" - where young girls in flood-prone areas are being married off by their families before seasonal rains arrive. www.dawn.com/news/1896579
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Washed away
Climate change is forcing girls into early marriage.
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I have an inordinate amount of mushroom photographs on my feed. How do I fix the algo? Bluesky gods, send me cat pics instead pls!!
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Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Honoured to announce that we lauch Vol.1 Iss. 1 of @genderandjustice.bsky.social! It’s open access until May 31 2025 Details bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Join us at the new Sussex Centre for Law and Technology for a research and policy seminar on the Online Safety Act! The seminar is partly funded by the @bileta.bsky.social Research Seminar Awards. 📍 Sussex uni and online 🗓️ Friday 6 June 2025 Call for papers: www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/law-...
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Research and Policy Seminar: The Future of the Online Safety Act 2023 - Call for Papers
We invite academics (including postgraduate researchers), practitioners,policy researchers to submit papers on any aspect of the Online Safety Act.
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Tim Lockley @timlockley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Come visit the Lego Suffragette in the Faculty of Arts building at Warwick University !
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Leila Ullrich @leilaullrich.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I'm giving an online talk on my book, 'Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court', this Monday (3rd Feb) at 12.30, topped up with newer ideas on whether we should pay 'wages for victims'. Register here: @cambridgegender.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victims-an...
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Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court
Part of the Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar Series.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
📣 Job Alert My university (Manchester Met) is looking to hire a few new law lecturers. We are a growing department, with colleagues working on critical, socio-legal legal issues relating to gender, sexuality, disability, race, migration, culture, etc. Check out the link for more info. #AcademicSky
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Lecturer in Law - (8085) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Can't wait!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/01/2025
‘Epidemic’ of violence against women and girls in UK is getting worse – report
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‘Epidemic’ of violence against women and girls in UK is getting worse – report
National Audit Office says government attempts to tackle misogynistic violence are hampered by poor coordination An “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse despite years of government promises and strategies, a highly…
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An excellent opportunity for aspiring PhDs at my alma mater with a brilliant, passionate, supportive faculty 🌟
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Feminist Legal Studies is delighted to announce that the winner of the Editors’ Article Prize for the best scholarly contribution to the journal in 2024 is Leon Laidlaw for, ‘Prison Abolition for Collective Freedom: Facilitating Co-Resistance to Binary Colonial Prisons’. Many congratulations, Leon!
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Prison Abolition for Collective Freedom: Facilitating Co-Resistance to Binary Colonial Prisons - Feminist Legal Studies
Canada’s binary prison system is a product of prison reforms that aimed to be attentive to what has been presumed to be innate differences between men and women. More recently, however, the binary str...
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Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Devastating article from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. Children have made up the majority of casualties in the Gazan genocide. Tens of thousands of innocent children lie dead, many still under rubble. Pause for a moment & allow those statistics to become tragedies so we might try to mourn them properly
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
CFP: UNDERSTANDING MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE - One Day Conference 28 May @qmul.ac.uk. How and why do miscarriages of justice happen and what do we understand and learn (or not) from them? We welcome submissions on any relevant topics, such as #PostOffice #CCRC, #SJP docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Delighted to have joined the editorial board of @flsjournal.bsky.social earlier this month! I’ve been a long admirer of the journal’s feminist ethos and praxis and I’m so very honoured to work alongside a brilliant team ✨
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School of Law & Social Justice at University of Liverpool @livunislsj.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We’re thrilled to be hosting the SLSA (@slsauk.bsky.social) Conference this year – the UK’s premier socio-legal research event! 📚✨ Join us in Liverpool, April 15-17, to engage with leading experts in the field & experience all this vibrant city has to offer. 👉 Find out more: bit.ly/slsa2025
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy New Year! For those of you doing critical feminist socio-legal research this year, please consider submitting your work to Feminist Legal Studies. We are interested in critical, interdisciplinary, rigorous scholarship in both traditional scholarly (articles) and creative formats (reflections).
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Feminist Legal Studies
Feminist Legal Studies is committed to an international perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal ...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Academic guilt season starts today, winter edition. Feel guilty if working, feel guilty if not.
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
My book, which reports on the everyday lived realities of women victims of domestic violence and their interactions with the legal system in Pakistan, now has a listing! Forthcoming in May 2025 with OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us. Because the shame has to switch sides.
Street art showing Gisele Pelicot looking badass with the phrase written next to her “the shame must switch sides” in French
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Alex Batesmith @batesmith.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New podcast alert! The latest episode of New Books in Law is with the brilliant @leilaullrich.bsky.social: we talked about her book Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: the Blame Cascade. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/victims-and-....
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Leila Ullrich, "Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
the first coffee of the day is to have enough energy to go and get the real coffee
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Iran's "hijab removal" clinics labelling women as mentally ill - by my @royalholloway.bsky.social colleague @daanika.bsky.social for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/iran-hijab-t...
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Iran: hijab ‘treatment clinics’ echo historical use of mental illness to control women
Throughout history, women who protested against the state or were seen as trouble makers were dubbed ‘mentally ill’.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/12/2024
Barrister cleared of misconduct after criticising 'boys' club' attitude in legal profession
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Barrister cleared of misconduct after criticising 'boys' club' attitude in legal profession
Dr Charlotte Proudman had faced a disciplinary tribunal over a 14-part Twitter thread criticising a ruling in a case she worked on A barrister has attacked misogyny in the legal profession after a misconduct case brought against her for calling out a…
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My piece on Iran’s proposed ‘hijab removal treatment clinics’ for @uk.theconversation.com
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Dr Sharron FitzGerald @sharronfitz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Join our senior editorial leadership! Gender and Justice is seeking a Co-Editor in Chief to shape critical feminist scholarship. We welcome senior experts in sociology, geography, political science, law & related fields. Applications due Jan 31, 2025🎯 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gen....
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dr marthe goudsmit samaritter @marthe.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Image hashing is used to recognise and prevent (re-)uploads of abusive images without having to give acces to the actual image. Now it seems AI can come very close to reconstructing the image from the hash, turning a tool for protection into a tool for abuse www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/new...
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Research reveals image-based sexual abuse removal tools are vulnerable to Generative AI attacks
New research led by Royal Holloway academics has revealed privacy vulnerabilities in “perceptual hashing,” a technology widely used to combat the spread of non-consensual intimate images.
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Great development re: homicide law & sentencing - particularly to address the gendered nature of these offences www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec...
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Murderers who use strangulation or kill ex-partners face longer jail terms
New laws to be introduced in England and Wales in attempt to reduce violence against women and girls
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Happy midweek reading!
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My book is now a stonking 30% off just in time for Christmas! What is, after all, more Christmassy than reading about endless lawsuits, bad lawyers and Masonic conspiracy theories? Dickens would agree! (Disclaimer: I am not comparing myself to Dickens) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/litigants...
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Litigants in Person in the Civil Justice System
Why do people represent themselves?What works and what doesn't for self-represented parties?And how can we improve Litigant in Person (LiP) experiences to make…
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 27/11/2024
I welcome the launch of new Domestic Abuse Protection Orders and Notices today in three pilot London boroughs to help ensure that victims of domestic abuse are better protected from perpetrators. It’s important that third parties can apply for the order on behalf of victims.
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Government launches tough new restraining order system for domestic abusers
The family courts will be able to force abusers to wear tags for the first time
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Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For those interested in reading about South Asian feminisms: 'The Feminisms of Our Mothers' (Zubaan, 2024) is a literary anthology containing 20 deeply personal essays written by brilliant Pakistani women that reflect on the joys and conflicts of maternal relationships...
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Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is an awful case but interesting to read a charge of manslaughter in a case of accepted suicide. amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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Young mother killed herself after years of abuse by ex-boyfriend, Preston court told | UK news | The Guardian
Kiena Dawes left note saying she was ‘murdered’ by Ryan Wellings, who is standing trial for her manslaughter
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