Why is Northern Ireland 'UK's most dangerous place to be a woman'?

It's a Monday afternoon and outside a courtroom, the family of Natalie McNally, killed when she was 15 weeks pregnant, watch on as her partner is found guilty of her murder. Some 70 miles away, the family of Amy Doherty, a mother-of-two, is in mourning after she too was murdered, with a man later being arrested on suspicion of the crime. The lives of two much-loved women taken far too soon, and the impact of their loss felt by countless others. This is only a snapshot, as when you stand back, you see they are only two of the 30 women violently killed in Northern Ireland since 2020. It's a troubling statistic in a country with a population of just 1.9m, and one that has prompted Secretary of State Hilary Benn to say it was "shameful" that Northern Ireland was the "most dangerous place to be a woman". Of the 30 woman killed, in all but one the perpetrator or suspected perpetrator has been a man. In most, the man was well known to the woman. "It horrifies me. It should anger us all," Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said. But why is Northern Ireland proving such a dangerous place for women? And what is being done to change that? On Tuesday, Belfast's Waterfr