Labour leader tells Women’s Aid conference he will use his own experience as DPP after collapse in number of charges
Keir Starmer has vowed to make it his “personal mission” to stand up for victims of domestic violence, after a collapse in the number of charges brought for the crime.leader said that as the director of public prosecutions he had witnessed “the devastating impact domestic violence has on victims and their families”, and how abuse often escalated into other forms of serious violence.
Reports of domestic abuse have risen rapidly in the past decade, and are up almost 120% on 2015 figures.show that more than 915,000 cases were recorded in the year ending September 2022, a significant increase from the 421,185 recorded between April 2015 and March 2016. Despite the increase, the number of people charged for domestic abuse has almost halved since 2015 and the number of victims dropping out of cases has increased.
Starmer said he would always have “profound respect” for her parents, John and Penny, who campaigned for the change.
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