Yesterday, Detective Inspector John Trott said that in the previous 24 hours alone there had been 75 domestic abuse incidents recorded across the whole of Devon and Cornwall.
The area was hit by heavy rain in recent days.
But councillor Stuart Hughes, chairman of Sidmouth Town Council, doubted the comments.
“It seemed a strange thing to blame a rise in domestic violence on the weather. I know the weather gets blamed for a lot of things but this is a new one on me. I would question whether that is the case.”
(Read by CJ Henderson. CJ Henderson is a journalist at the China Daily Website.)
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(Agencies)
英国家庭暴力事件急剧增多,但警方将这一现象归咎于恶劣的天气,称阴雨天气会使家暴增多。
英国德文郡和康沃尔郡的官员表示,恶劣的天气迫使伴侣呆在屋内太久,这样会导致“幽居病”,继而增加发生家暴的几率。
他们甚至表示,英国近来在建房屋数量上升也是家暴增多的原因,去年英国的家暴事件增加了37%。
但一位地方议员表示,这种理由非常“奇怪”,并提醒称警方可能会忽略掉家暴的真正原因。
警官安迪-特纳在与锡德茅斯市议会举行的一次会议上作出了上述评论。该地区也在进行两项新的住宅开发项目。
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