A GREEN Party peer said she has received 'positive feedback' after suggesting a 6pm curfew for men should be introduced.

Baroness Jones, who lives in Cerne Abbas, made the suggestion during a speech in the House of Lords this week as police continued to investigate the death of 33-year-old Sarah Everard who vanished as she walked home in south London.

The peer accused the Metropolitan Police of victim blaming in their initial advice to women to not go out alone in the wake of Miss Everard's disappearance.

Police confirmed yesterday a body found in Kent woodland was that of Miss Everard. A serving Metropolitan Police officer remains in custody having been held on suspicion of her kidnap and murder.

The events have reignited the debate about the safety of women.

Baroness Jones said she was glad she raised the issue of a curfew for men, something she said would "make women a lot safer". It came as the Lords debated domestic abuse legislation.

The peer said: "I’ve had a lot of positive feedback from both women and men. The debate is changing and it is great to see people coming together.

"There is little understanding amongst a lot of men about the victim-blaming culture.

"There are a lot of men out there who can’t cope with this upside down world where the starting point of a conversation about women’s safety is the problem of violent and misogynistic men.

"This is not to say that all men are monsters, but women understand that some men are capable of rape, sexual assault and violence.

"As of Friday, six women and a little girl have been killed since Sarah Everard disappeared."

Baroness Jones said a survey out this week found 97 per cent of women aged 18-24 said they had been sexually harassed, while 80 per cent of all women had experienced sexual harassment in public spaces.

"This is way more widespread than men like to own up to," she said.

"We need to deal with domestic abuse and what children experience in their home environments, which is what the Lords has been discussing productively for the last few weeks.

"We need to deal with the entire failure of the police and criminal justice system in dealing with rape – a 1 per cent success rate for any other crime would have been dealt with years ago. Above all we need to make misogyny a hate crime and start to change the culture that seeks to keep women ‘in their place’ with abuse and intimidation."

"If anyone is being advised to stay at home it should be men, not women."

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