UK politicians and experts demand that suicides connected to domestic abuse be investigated as potential homicides. They say police must move away from a simple "tickbox approach" and get proper training to understand how domestic abuse affects victims. The Guardian revealed that up to 1,500 victims yearly may take their own lives due to abuse, but official police data last year counts only 98 cases. Campaigner Karen Ingala Smith said, "That we don’t even know how many women taken their lives because of men’s violence is to our society’s shame and reflects how little women’s lives matter." Domestic abuse commissioner Dame Nicole Jacobs called it "unacceptable" that families must fight for justice due to poor police questioning after deaths. "No perpetrator should escape justice because we failed to look closely enough," she warned. Former victims’ commissioner Vera Baird KC said suicides should be seen as manslaughter or even murder if abuse pushed the victim to kill themselves. "The police should have an investigative approach, rather than a tickbox approach," she said. Government minister Jess Phillips highlighted the new violence against women and girls strategy to prevent such deaths. Women’s Aid charity says official numbers "significantly underrepresent the reality" and called for better training on coercive control. Liberal Democrat Marie Goldman called for all suspected domestic abuse suicides to be fully investigated as homicides. Shadow minister Mims Davies urged urgent government action, including police access to national databases on abusers’ records. Helpline contacts are available in the UK, US, Australia, and globally for those seeking help.