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- Campaigners secured a 25-year minimum sentence for domestic murder in England and Wales after a seven-year campaign.
- Justice Secretary David Lammy announced the ten-year increase, linking it to a pledge to halve violence against women.
- Data show women comprise about 70 % of home homicide victims.
- Charity Killed Women, Refuge and Prison Reform Trust warned longer sentences could strain prisons and urged a review of partial defences that allow manslaughter charges.
