‘Ere We Go, ‘Ere We Go, ‘Ere We Go…

The parents of a teenager — killed when her partner threw her down the stairs — have backed a police crackdown on domestic violence before the World Cup.

Here we go again. We get this every year now.

You’d think, from the fuss, that hitherto-placid men would be suddenly prone to fits of rage against ‘er indoors due solely to the existence of a chavball match on the gogglebox…

Det Chf Supt Vanessa Jardine, from GMP’s Public Protection Division, said: “We know from our own data there was a spike in domestic incidents during the 2010 World Cup.

“We want to make it clear to those offenders that this year’s event as with any sporting event will not be used as a way of justifying such abusive behaviour.”

Quite right, Vanessa, I mean, no-one should expect violent behaviour just becau…

Oh.

Pilkington, then aged 24, met Carly after the teenager wrote to him while he was in prison. He had already been convicted of manslaughter at the age of 18.

Rather than use the World Cup as a convenient excuse to tick a box on your ‘wommynz studies’ PR outreach initiative, why not point out that your chances of getting beaten up by your partner increase exponentially if that partner is already known to be violent?