evidence: ‘Appalling’ murder rate of women in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland has the joint highest rate in Europe of women killed as a result of domestic violence but remains the only part of the UK which does not have a law criminalising the use of coercive control on a partner. [...] The most recent statistics show that Northern Ireland faces an endemic in relation to female murders, with more women per capita murdered in Northern Ireland as a result of domestic violence than any other part of western Europe. In Europe, the murder rate of women subjected to domestic violence is joint highest in Northern Ireland and Romania.