Your facts are completely wrong, the case you're referring to has been headline and front-page news on the BBC website for 2 days, I only heard about the tree through this hn link.

Pretty sure that someone felling a 200 year old woman would be seen as pretty horrifying as well. :p

The awful stabbing was on literally every front page yesterday.

I certainly do not think you're correct at all. A lot of people are talking about the case you referred to.

“Dog bites man” wouldn’t make headlines, but “man bites dog” would. Doesn’t say anything about the level of human suffering and empathy.

I suppose that you are in a position to be measuring the differences in societal sentiment re different news events?

I agree. Society’s attitude toward DV / violence against women is abhorrent. This sort of whataboutism is not the answer. It doesn’t help any cause. You’re doing it for selfish reasons.