💨 Abstract

New UK sentencing rules now allow judges to impose longer prison terms for domestic murders involving strangulation or occurring at the end of a relationship. Campaigners, while welcoming the changes, urge courts to close the sentencing gap between domestic and public murders, where penalties are often harsher. Families of victims and advocates stress the need for stricter enforcement of these new aggravating factors. The government aims to halve violence against women and girls in the next decade.

Courtesy: Sam Corbishley