Fallen Women This Autumn
A new Stacey Dooley documentary will spotlight the families and campaigners demanding greater scrutiny when women die after falling from height
A powerful new BBC documentary will examine whether domestic abuse may have been overlooked in the deaths of women who fell from height.
Fallen Women with Stacey Dooley, coming to BBC Three and iPlayer in autumn 2026, begins with the story of Bianca Thomas, a young mother from Birmingham whose death after falling from an 11th-floor balcony was ruled accidental.
Stacey meets Bianca’s family and friends, including her sister and Killed Women co-founder Jhiselle Feanny, who remain unhappy with the verdict and continue to have questions about the circumstances surrounding her death.
The documentary will explore other cases in which women died in ambiguous circumstances, often following allegations or histories of coercive and violent relationships. Through conversations with bereaved families, experts, campaigners and law enforcement, it will examine the difficulties surrounding these investigations and the growing campaign for Bee’s Law.
Bee’s Law would encourage deaths involving falls from height to be treated more consistently as potential crime scenes, ensuring important evidence is not lost before domestic abuse and other lines of inquiry have been properly considered.
The documentary follows years of determined work by Killed Women, whose Fallen Women campaign launched in March 2024. The campaign calls for deaths involving women who fall from height to be reviewed by police, with domestic abuse considered as a key line of inquiry.
It is also calling for stronger national policing guidance, improved oversight and official data collection to understand better how frequently these deaths occur.
That campaigning is already helping to sharpen the focus on these cases.
The latest national report into domestic homicides and suspected victim suicides recorded 18 deaths involving a fall from height during 2024–25, bringing the five-year total to 39 victims. The report said the increased analytical focus and requests for police forces to submit these cases were likely to have improved awareness and understanding of deaths involving a history of domestic abuse. (VKPP)
The campaign’s launch also coincided with the Channel 4 documentary The Push: Murder on the Cliff, which told the story of Fawziyah Javed, who was murdered after being pushed from Arthur’s Seat by her husband in 2021.
Her mother, Yasmin, has become part of the Killed Women network and continues to campaign for deaths involving so-called “fallen women” to be investigated rigorously.
At M.Y.H, we welcome this upcoming documentary and the wider attention it will bring to families who have had to fight for their questions to be taken seriously. No death should be dismissed before every possibility has been fully and carefully investigated.
