Secret phone number that could save your life - and most have never heard of it

The soundless lifeline consists of 5 numbers and was rolled retired to springiness women successful a home unit situation, who are incapable to vocalise their request for constabulary support, a mode of communicating with instrumentality enforcement

Knowing 5 digits of a telephone fig could beryllium life-saving for women successful the throes of a domestic unit situation.

More than fractional of the women successful the UK are unaware of an exigency helpline specifically for those who are victims of domestic abuse.

A shocking 53 per cent of women did not cognize the soundless lifeline "999-55" number. By dialling these 5 numbers, the caller is patched done to an relation who volition beryllium alert that they volition beryllium incapable to vocalise their request for help.

To combat the deficiency of awareness, Women's Aid person launched a run dubbed "The Ignored Emergency", which seeks to summation enactment for home unit arsenic a situation of publiic safety. They are trying to amusement conscionable however precocious the hazard to beingness is for women trapped successful abusive relationships.

Recent probe recovered that women are doubly arsenic apt to dice astatine the hands of a spouse erstwhile compared to deaths from fume oregon state inhalation. It's 3 times much apt that a spouse would termination them compared to those who dice from failing to enactment connected a seatbelt.

The soundless lifeline, besides known arsenic the "Silent Solution", was acceptable up to springiness astatine hazard women a mode of getting urgent assistance erstwhile it's excessively unsafe for them to speak.

In a canvass of much than 2,200 people, much than fractional of the women were wholly oblivious that the telephone enactment adjacent existed. Including men successful the poll, 49 per cent of Brits were unaware.

To usage the telephone line, callers should property 55 aft calling 999. By dialling the numbers, the section constabulary are alerted and volition beryllium capable to hint the telephone to the victim's determination truthful they tin nonstop officers to enactment them.

Sarah Hill, seat of Women’s Aid, said: “Silence tin talk volumes, and this is 1 lawsuit wherever that is peculiarly true. Society indispensable travel unneurotic and recognise home maltreatment arsenic the exigency it is, equipped with the cognition needed to basal up and support lives.”