Rutherglen residents and neighbours are being encouraged to report suspected domestic violence to police as attacks spiral during lockdown.Calls to the National Abuse Hotline in the UK soared by 65 per cent last month and by 25 per cent in a five-day period two weeks ago.With domestic violence accounting for one third of all violent crime, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has issued a new report urging all Rutherglen and Cambuslang residents to watch out for signs of domestic abuse among their neighbours in the wake of a sharp rise in attacks during lockdown.The report, Domestic Abuse and the Lockdown, warns that just as the government has taken lockdown measures to contain the Covid-19 outbreak, traditional lifelines for vulnerable
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