Surge in domestic abuse among teenagers blamed on rise of the ‘manosphere’

The number of domestic abuse victims taking their own lives has outstripped the number being killed by an intimate partner for the third consecutive year (Picture: Getty Images)

A teenage girl has been identified as being driven to end her own life because of domestic abuse for the first time, with ‘toxic influencers’ and violent porn blamed for a worrying rise in abuse among teenagers.

The number of domestic abuse victims taking their own lives has outstripped the number being killed by an intimate partner for the third consecutive year – and nearly doubled in the past year.

There were 150 suspected cases where abuse victims ended their lives in the year to March 2025 – up from 98 in the previous 12 months. The Domestic Homicide Project report recorded 80 intimate partner kil...