The Respect Men's Advice Line, which offers support to men experiencing domestic abuse, says that it received 13,812 calls and emails between April and July in lockdown. This compares to 8,648 in the same period in 2019 and represents a 60 per cent increase.
The advice line told BBC News that the biggest increase in contact with abuse victims came through emails and the service saw the volume increase by 96 per cent from 372 emails in June 2019 to 728 in June 2020.
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