The PSNI have revealed that there were nearly 30,000 domestic violence incidents in a year.

Police have confirmed that from 31 March 2016 - 1 April 2017 there were 29,166 domestic abuse incidents recorded to the police.

They have urged victims to speak out and not to 'become a statistic'.

In 2014/15 there were 28,287 incidents with a domestic motivation reported to the PSNI.

During that period the PSNI responded to a domestic incident every 19 minutes of every day.

6 murders committed during that period had a domestic abuse motivation (representing 37.5% of all murders in Northern Ireland) and there were over two and a half times as many domestic abuse crimes (13,426) as drug offences (5,048).

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