We also acknowledge a further seven women and youngsters, aged from seven weeks to 94, who we are unable to name due to pending legal proceedings.
Female members of JPI media staff have read out the names of every Lancashire victim in a video, in a bid to raise awareness of the shameful tally of deadly violence against the county’s women.
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37. Rosie Darbyshire
Preston mum Rosie, 27, was beaten to death "beyond recognition" with a crowbar in Ribbleton. Violent boyfriend Benjamin Topping, 25, inflicted 50 blows on her as he attacked her on Pope Lane. She had tried to seek information about his violent past using Clare's Law. He was later ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years. Photo: submit
38. Leanne Unsworth
Grandmother Leanne, 40, was discovered at a house in Marlborough Street, Burnley, after Shaun Sanders, 40, battered her to death with a hammer during an acute psychotic episode. The mother-of-three had tried to help him, but the former soldier, who suffered paranoid schizophrenia, became convinced she had been taking photos of his son. He was given a hospital order after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. Photo: submit
39. Lindsay Birbeck
Teaching assistant and mum Lindsay Birbeck, 47, was strangled and buried in a cemetery in Accrington. Rocky Marciano Price, 17, was caught on CCTV pulling a wheelie bin with Mrs Birbeck's body inside before she was found in a shallow grave 12 days later. He was jailed with a minimum term of 16 years. Photo: submit
40. Marlene McCabe
Marlene, 71, died from serious head and facial injuries after she was attacked with a rope door stop. Her grandson Conor Clarkson was later charged with murder but following a number of assessments, it was agreed he had been suffering with mental health-related illnesses at the time of the offence and had diminished responsibility. The 26-year-old pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. Photo: submit
41. Alison McBlain
Mum Alison, 36, was deliberately mowed down by a Fiat Punto and flung 42ft down a street over a £60 drug debt. She died two days later in hospital with her 12-year-old son and relatives at her bedside. Drug gang member Dean Qayum, then 21, of Patterdale Avenue, Blackburn was sentenced to a minimum term of 20 years, while Kaylib Connolly, 19, got a minimum term of 14 years and Joshua Titterington, 27, of Scotland Bank Terrace, Blackburn got a minimum term of 17-and-a-half years. Karis Poynton, 28, of Whalley Road, Clayton-le-Moors got life with a minimum term of 13 years and John Chatwood, 26, of Walsh Street, Blackburn -got sentenced to 14 years for manslaughter. Photo: submit
42. Mandy Houghton
Mandy Houghton, 58, was killed by her elderly neighbour Alan Fare, 72, who attacked her with a hammer. Fare, of Victory Close, Nelson, was deemed unfit to stand trial due to his medical disabilities, being that he was suffering from dementia and at the time of his arrest was also experiencing paranoia and psychosis. But he was found guilty of the act of killing and given an indefinite hospital order. Photo: submit