Domestic Abuse Bill - PASSED

DAB

Over the last 10 years, the Conservative Government has:

✅ Outlawed upskirting

✅ Created offence of coercive control

✅ Outlawed so-called “rough sex gone wrong” defence to murder

✅ Outlawed non-fatal strangulation

✅ Create offence of stalking and doubled maximum sentence

✅ Criminalised sending of revenge porn images and threatening to do so

✅ Introduced measures to make it easier to give evidence in court

✅ Passed Modern Slavery Act

✅ Increased Funding for Rape Support Centres by 50%

✅ Passed a new Victims’ Code setting out twelve key rights for victims from complaint through to trial and sentence

✅ Boosted helplines and refuge spaces

Domestic Abuse Bill

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It is a sad but inescapable truth that domestic violence is a horrific reality for thousands of people, both women and men, around the UK in 21st century Britain. Alongside rape, sexual exploitation and trafficking, domestic violence is an inexcusable crime. It is even present in Wealden, where domestic abuse crimes rose to 532 in 2014/15 and the number of domestic abuse incidents reached 742.