In just 20 years, 27 women in North Staffordshire have seen their lives brutally ended by men.
The shocking statistic comes amid the debate around the freedom and safety of women following the killing of Sarah Everard in London and murder of PCSO Julia James in Kent.
It has triggered a surge in women speaking openly about the abuse, threats, harassment and violence they are subjected to from men.
Crofts, 30, was this week sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 16 years and nine months after stabbing Kimberley to death in a jealous rage.
Other innocent victims a teenage girl who was brutally raped and murdered by a footballer, a sex worker strangled to death and a young woman whose sadistic husband doused her in petrol and then set her on fire.
Kevin McNatt and Andrew Todesco
MANSFIELD - Massachusetts law requires each city and town to contact its neighbors every five years and reaffirm the boundaries that separate them. This act is called perambulating and was handed down from ancient traditions in England.
Perambulating involves locating and inspecting old granite markers or other landmarks that define town lines. And in the swampy wilds of southeastern Massachusetts that was not always easy.
An early example of perambulation occurred on Nov. 26, 1793 when Mansfield selectmen John Dean and Jonathan Newcomb met two selectmen from the Town of Attleborough. They reported the following:
“We began at a heap of stones for the southwest corner of Mansfield,” they reported. Next they found a second “heap of stones on ridge hill, on Balcom’s plain.” Then finally “a large heap of stones being the northwest corner of Mansfield and the southwest corner of Foxborough, and the southeast corner of Wrentham [now Plain
Tynia Trembow Richardson, age 79, of Orrtanna, passed away on Monday, March 8, 2021, at Genesis Gettysburg Center.
Born July 21, 1941. in Vinnytsya, Ukraine, she was the daughter of the late Apollon Trembow and Irene Trembow Liwaj. Her family survived World War II and arrived in America in 1949.
Tynia was a 1960 graduate of Fairfield High School, where she participated in many activities. She worked at Fairfield High School as an instructional assistant and retired after 27 years of service. She was instrumental in starting the Fairfield PTA. She also thoroughly enjoyed tutoring children who came to her in various subjects.
Tynia was a member of the Orrtanna United Methodist Church, where she served as assistant Sunday school superintendent for many years, in addition to teaching Sunday school and Bible school. She was always active in helping with all church functions.
Fire service argued over where to meet others before deploying, inquiry was told
Images were shown to the inquiry of makeshift stretchers that police, first aid staff and rail employees used to help transport the badly injured in the meantime
The last was removed 54 minutes before fire service arrived, the inquiry was told
Inquiry also heard that for an hour, police believed there might be an accomplice
Inspector Dale Sexton, force duty officer, was told of Asian male with rucksack
Firearms officer told him there was a second male in company with the bomber