The government should take on more of my suggestions, says the head of a review into domestic abuse murders.
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Changes will also ensure judges hand down longer sentences where "overkill" - or excessive violence - has been used. under coercive control laws, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the government's approach "will make matters much worse for women who kill their abusive partners". The barrister said "two or three" of her recommendations had been adopted - but she had been told by the government that today's announcement is "interim".
As well as ensuring that judges take coercive control and extreme violence into account, the government will also:
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