Catherine Bennett is right to say that perpetrators of domestic violence should be removed from the home (“Blunt knives to stop domestic violence? However, my experience as a circuit judge who tried many serious cases of domestic violence is that not all women want to take this course of action. The causes of domestic violence and knife crime are complex. Of course, it will not prevent domestic violence and those knives may still cause slash injuries, but it is the points of knives that penetrate deep into the body and kill or cause serious injury. The onus is on the cruise industry to work with the local governments wherever big ships dock.

Source: The Guardian June 23, 2019 04:52 UTC