Women Cannot Even Rest In Peace

Women are not safe. It doesn’t matter how many times you say it, the message still doesn’t get through.

Lately women are being told that their fear of men is largely in their minds, that their experience of male violence doesn’t count for anything, as if the very threat they face from cradle to grave is not real, as if there is no reason to clutch keys between their fingers as they walk home at night.

Today marked the first day of a court case at Maidstone Crown Court. I started my career in journalism as a court reporter, and yet this has to be the most shocking case I have ever heard. Sixty-seven-year-old David Fuller has been charged with the murder of two young women back in 1987. In Tunbridge Wells — the town where I live — these are known as the bedsit murders and they have gone unsolved, until now.

Three decades ago, two women were savagely beaten and murdered, today we found out the killer also had sex with their dead bodies.

Wendy Knell, 25, was found dead in her flat, and fi…