In a series of tweets posted on Saturday, an officer from Lochaber & Skye police in Scotland wrote: "We know you follow this account and want you to see this. "We’ve told you previously that we think you are at risk of domestic abuse from your partner." The tweets urge a woman to leave her violent partner, but it is understood that they do not relate to a specific woman, but are intended to strike a chord with any woman who is in a similar situation.

Researchers who produced the report, "Intersecting Inequalities: The impact of austerity on BME women", have said that as well as the discrimination faced by women and black and minority ethnic (BME) people, there was a specific disadvantage that comes with being a woman from one of those backgrounds, particularly in the labour market.