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THE Lords were urged today to make non-fatal strangulation a specific crime in the Domestic Abuse Bill, which is making its passage through Parliament.
The push to make it a specific offence is being led by former victims’ commissioner Baroness Newlove, a Tory peer who is campaigning for the change via an amendment, which has cross-party support, as the Bill returned to the Lords.
She told peers it would be “an unforgivable missed opportunity” if the Bill did not address the issue of strangulation and suffocation.
DANIEL GOVER considers the procedural complexities awaiting a Private Member’s Bill in its passage through Commons and Lords
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
