evidence: Femicide – the killing of women and girls because of their gender – has risen sharply in the North over the past decade; figures supplied to The Irish Times by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) show rates for female victims of "intentional homicide" by "intimate partners" have increased more than four-fold; from 0.11 per 100,000 of the female population in 2008 to 0.52 in 2021. [...] "It’s almost like a ‘tolerance’ for want of a better word for some femicides in Northern Ireland." [...] Fisher accepts "absolutely" that femicide rates are high in the North but insists the focus must be on "people, not statistics".