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This is Not Right

A year-long Metro campaign to address the relentless epidemic of violence against women that aims to also educate, engage and empower our readers on the issue.

Real-Life Stories

'I saw Mum being killed - I'm a forgotten victim of domestic homicide'

UK February 3, 2025 Izzie Price

Left; Jess Michaels, who was raped by Jeffrey Epstein in 1991 Right; Screenshot from Callisto Vault

‘I was raped by Jeffrey Epstein - this tech could have been a gamechanger’

Tech January 18, 2025 By Jen Mills

A Rabbit Hole

'My date drugged me, kidnapped me and kept me trapped in an underground bunker’

World January 18, 2025 By Sarah Ingram

‘I called the police 169 times during my eight years of abuse hell’

UK January 15, 2025 By Kirsten Robertson

Dated: 31/10/2024 Doreen Soulsby, from Wall, Northumberland, whose daughter Joanne Tulip was murdered on Christmas Day in 1997, resulting in farm worker Steven Ling being jailed for life in December 1998. FAO Steven Lawrence at Metro

I answered the phone on Christmas Day and my world fell apart

UK December 23, 2024 By Doreen Soulsby

How to help

Andrew Tate's advice is a Trojan horse and the victims are young men

Lifestyle January 13, 2025 Dr Robert Lawson

Shadows of women walking

Small things you can do to make a woman feel safer

Lifestyle December 9, 2024 By Rosy Edwards

New stalking laws in the UK explained and why they are needed

UK December 3, 2024 By Jen Mills

Two women are sitting and talking

What to do if your loved one is at risk from domestic abuse

Lifestyle December 9, 2024 By Rosy Edwards

Emotional stress

What to do if you've been raped

Lifestyle December 9, 2024 By Rosy Edwards

MORE STORIES

More than 20 women come forward in appeal for victims of serial spiking rapist

More than 20 women come forward in appeal for victims of serial spiking rapist

UK 3 hours ago By Sam Corbishley

Adolescence. (L to R) Mark Stanley as Paulie Miller, Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller, Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix Â© 2024

Adolescence has the power to change the UK, Keir Starmer says

Politics 16 hours ago By Craig Munro

Keir Starmer: Why I can't stop thinking about Adolescence after watching it with my kids

UK 11 hours ago By Keir Starmer

Participants pass through Regent Street with trans pride

Tackling violence against women means standing with trans people too

UK 2 days ago By Ugla Stefanía Kristjönudóttir Jónsdóttir

Upset depressed teenager crying at home, sad frustrated teen girl sitting by window with head on knees. Teenagers and mental health concept

Take it from a survivor - paedophile jokes are never funny

Lifestyle 2 days ago By Anonymous

Pauline's daughter was killed by her partner when leaving a work function in 2019. She'd previously gone to the police with concerns that he was dangerous, and he was convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility after it was found he was going through a schizophrenic episode at the time. Pauline is has launched the BRF campaign in her daughter's memory (BRF are her daughter's initials - Bethany Rae Fields) and it stands for Believe. React. Fast and is a message to police to believe women when they come forward with concerns for their lives.

My daughter did everything she was meant to - then police failed her

UK 3 days ago By Pauline Jones

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Student with 'rage' against women jailed for life over Bournemouth beach murder

UK 4 days ago By Jasper King

Woman in 70s sexually assaulted by stranger while out for lunch at Italian bistro

UK 5 days ago By Sarah Hooper

A young girl in preschool puts her head down on the desk and pouts

Backlash to gender equality is growing - but there is hope

Opinion 5 days ago By Tabitha Morton

Brianna Ghey in the centre of a collage. She is surrounded by pictures of her with her friends.

Brianna Ghey's 'unapologetic' life as told by her grieving best friends

UK 6 days ago By Josie Copson

Connor Pennell. Photo released Marach 26 2025. Controlling and coercive man sentenced after baby camera footage captured rape. Connor Pennell of Vines Cross Way, Skelmersdale was yesterday (Tuesday 25 March 2025) sentenced to 9-and-a-half years at Bolton Crown Court after being found guilty of breaching his restraining order, rape, controlling and coercive behaviour, non-fatal strangulation and three counts of voyeurism.

Misogynist used babycam to film himself raping woman during campaign of abuse

UK 6 days ago By Sarah Hooper

Screengrab from the show Adolescence

Men on an incel website reveal what they really think about women

UK 6 days ago By Gergana Krasteva

Entrance of the Vienna's Regional court room are pictured in Vienna, Austria, on February 1, 2023. - The verdict of the trial of the six men who helped a gunman carry out Austria's first deadly jihadist attack is expected on February 1, 2023. Convicted Islamic State group sympathiser Kujtim Fejzulai went on a shooting rampage on November 2, 2020 in downtown Vienna, killing four and wounding 23 others before police shot him dead. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Girl, 12, raped by more than a dozen boys who filmed attacks

World 7 days ago By Sarah Hooper

Former footballer Joey Barton arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court, central London, where he is charged with assaulting his wife, Georgia Barton. Picture date: Tuesday March 25, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Barton. Photo credit should read: Lucy North/PA Wire

Ex-Premier League footballer Joey Barton found guilty of assaulting his wife at home

UK March 25, 2025 By Katie Boyden

young attractive man use mobile phone late at night in a dark room

The 'sadistic' online gangs of teenage boys targeting other children for abuse

Tech March 25, 2025 By Jen Mills

In silhouette of woman sad depression in bedroom.

More manslaughter charges promised after rise in domestic abuse-related suicides

UK March 25, 2025 By Craig Munro

Sam Varley has given evidence from beyond the grave as chilling footage showing her telling officers how the man accused of her murder would kill her was played to a courtroom. Warren Spence, 54, is standing trial at Leeds Crown Court accused of Sam's murder. Sam's body was discovered on February 12 last year in her bed at the couple's home in Brown Hill Terrace, Harehills, after a concerned relative called 999 due to not seeing her for a few days

Mum predicted her own death and who would kill her

UK March 25, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

a teenage girl look in smartphone in nature

I found my brother's blog - he asked readers how to murder me

Families March 24, 2025 By Anonymous

Desperate woman

I am in a coercive relationship, this is why I can't leave

Lifestyle March 24, 2025 By Clare O'Reilly

Too many crimes against women of colour are being ignored

UK March 24, 2025 By Sharan Dhaliwal