Mel B calls for action instead of words on domestic abuse and says more funding is needed

SPICE Girl Melanie Brown has called for enactment alternatively of words connected home abuse.

The singer, a patron of the foundation Women’s Aid — whose run is supported by The Sun — spoke retired astatine the World Economic Forum successful Davos, Switzerland.

Mel, 49, told however Sir Keir Starmer mentioned her during a code to Parliament — past added: “But it’s not conscionable astir talking astir it.

"It is getting the funding.”

She called for the “little spot of money” that is assigned each twelvemonth to beryllium allocated decently to domestic abuse charities truthful it goes straight to survivors — “and they really get the benefits”.

Mel besides urged much awareness of the needs of victims successful the wellness and tribunal system.

She said: "If I wanted to study it and woody with the justness system, I'm warring a losing conflict due to the fact that the judges are not educated.

"I person to beryllium adjacent to my perpetrator, and however americium I going to feel?

"I'm going to beryllium stumbling, I'm going to beryllium sweating, I'm going to person anxiety.

"I ne'er privation to spot this idiosyncratic again arsenic agelong arsenic I live.

"But dealing with the connection abuse, it leaves america women wholly breached and shattered.

"A batch of women extremity up (dying by) suicide, oregon they extremity up staying, and if they stay, it's a decease sentence."

Mel added: “We person to halt abuse.

"It's a woman's problem, and america arsenic women, it's down to america to halt it, and truthful let's get unneurotic and commencement warring this, due to the fact that it's not going to stop."