An alarming number of Australian women have been killed in recent years. Find out more about their lives. Some of the cases are still before the courts. See all 53 stories .

A Ballarat man who strangled his former partner Hannah McGuire to death before burning her body has been jailed for 28 years, with a judge describing his conduct as “brutal” and an “extreme act of domestic violence”.

Supreme Court Justice James Elliott said Lachlan Young’s murder of the Clunes woman was yet another case of an “innocent and defenceless” woman being killed by a man they had trusted.

As his sentence was handed down, 23-year-old Young stood in the dock of the packed Ballarat Supreme Court, dressed in a black shirt, and stared straight ahead.

Elliott said Young’s sense of entitlement and aggression

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