Ep 119: Victory! Dangerous Domestic Abusers to be added to the Violent and Sexual Offenders Register

Crime Analyst

Laura Richards

True Crime

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this short update Laura shares the good news and explains why it is so important that dangerous domestic abusers will be included on the violent and sexual offender register as well as further detail about the law reform. Announcing the reform on Monday 20 February, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said ‘domestic violence is completely unacceptable and cases torment, pain fear and anxiety.’ Finally, after 22 years of recommending and campaigning for this – it’s going to happen! Laura thanks all the incredible survivors, families and professionals who have been part of this long hard-fought campaign to make this happen! Clip https://twitter.com/ZDronfield/status/1627784389315756033?s=20 #SerialPerpetrators #DomesticViolence #Register #CrimeAnalyst #Expert #CampaignVictory #WomenMatter #ChildrenMatter Listen to Crime Analyst: Ep #12 Landslide Victory in the House of Lords in the wake of Sarah Everard Ep #17-19 My Mum was shot dead in front of me: the register would have saved me Clip Ep #20-21 The Final Frontier of the Domestic Abuse Bill, Serial Domestic Abusers and stalkers and Julia James’ Murder Ep #51-53 Preventing Murder in Slow MotionÔ with Zoe Dronfield Ep #54-56 Preventing Murder in Slow MotionÔ with Rachel Williams Ep #57-59 Preventing Murder in Slow MotionÔ with Celia Peachey For more information about the campaign: www.thelaurarichards.com https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spent-25-years-working-cases-women-murdered-abusers-makes/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/serial-perpetrators-register-domestic-abuse-bill-b1830857.html https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/27/dropping-of-stalkers-register-from-bill-an-insult-to-victims https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/domestic-abuse-bill-laura-richards-criminologist-553458 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/had-26-years-sleepless-nights-women-killed-violent-men-could/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/07/police-failings-led-deaths-31-women-hands-domestic-abusers/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/stopping-stalkers-domestic-abusers-will-save-lives-home-beyond/ https://www.change.org/p/suella-braverman-focus-on-serial-perpetrators-and-stalkers-who-abuse-multiple-women https://www.change.org/p/suella-braverman-focus-on-serial-perpetrators-and-stalkers-who-abuse-multiple-women/u/31270602 https://www.change.org/p/suella-braverman-focus-on-serial-perpetrators-and-stalkers-who-abuse-multiple-women/u/31331081 Information about the DASH, Coercive Control and Train the Trainer Masterclasses with Laura. Email [email protected] Subscribe to Crime Analyst You Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksfRSwfwFqUCjcxKYju6_Q Crime Analyst Merch https://crime-analyst.myshopify.com/ Leave a Review Support Laura’s work and Crime Analyst by leaving a 5-star review here: https://www.crime-analyst.com/reviews/new/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Back in 2014 I was almost murdered by my ex partner and what led to me joining this campaign
0:07.8	was actually spearheaded by Laura Richards who was the founder of Cullidin and Usher Stalking
0:12.0	Advocacy Service. I was almost murdered by Jason Smith and he was then convicted of GPH
0:22.4	Section 18. Once he was found guilty we assume found out that he was a serial perpetrator.
0:30.0	So he was known to police, he had done this before and actually had done it before to a police officer.
0:35.9	So the fear is that if they can actually get away with it by doing it to a police officer,
0:41.0	how do the rest of us stand in that? So it led me to the campaign to have serial
0:47.9	abusers put on a register. The register actually exists so I was never asking for a new register.
0:53.2	It was the violent and sex offenders register and opened that out to domestic abusers and stalking.
1:00.4	And this has been a campaign that's been running for many, well, two decades and we've got almost
1:06.5	300,000 signatures on the petition and every year I've been banning my drawing to get this
1:14.2	into law. It's really important that we collect the pattern of behaviour and something you just
1:22.8	mentioned before in when you said there's little evidence and often yes, there can be little
1:27.3	evidence but if you collect those small incidents that actually rack up and then the pattern
1:33.2	and the escalation, it then shows you more of a picture of what's going on.
1:37.7	Is this register going to be publicly accessible? So I mean, for example, if you start a new
1:44.5	relationship with somebody and you just detect that I'm not sure I'm comfortable with some of the
1:50.7	things that he or she is doing, will members of the public be able to access it?
1:57.6	So the violent and sex offenders register isn't a public register, it's already used for sex
2:02.3	offenders as we know but there is a thing called Clare's Law that you can go to your,
2:07.1	so if you are concerned about a new partner that you're in relationship with or maybe a family
2:12.5	members in relationship with, you can go to the police and ask for a Clare's Law disclosure
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