Help urged for Scottish male abuse victims

Men were the victims of domestic abuse on almost 10,000 occasions last year, figures have revealed.

The campaign group Abused Men In Scotland (AMIS) published the statistics, which show that in 2010-11 there were 9,589 domestic abuse cases reported to the police where the victim was male.

It said that was a rise of more than 10% on the previous year, as well as being the 11th year in a row that the number of attacks on men had risen.