Former Corrie actress Melissa Johns has called on television bosses to rethink how they depict the threat to women from male violence.
Melissa, who played Imogen Pascoe in the ITV soap, says fear has become so normalised that simple phrases such as “be careful” have ended up putting the responsibility on victims.
Speaking out in the wake of the killing of Sarah Everard, she told Manchester Evening News : “We know there isn’t a shortage in TV shows of ‘girl went missing’, ‘girl murdered’. “But there’s a narrative we’re missing that could start to change the way the world responds to that. “At the moment it’s, ‘Let’s keep her safe’.
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