Victims’ families let down by domestic killer reform’

Campaigners warn new measures do not go far enough’

- Michael Knowles

THE families of three women killed by ex-partners have blasted ministers for failing to treat domestic murders in the same way as attacks on strangers.

Campaigners Carole Gould, Julie Devey and Elaine Newborough said the Government is signalling that domestic killers "are not as dangerous as those who murder" people outside.

They want sentencing to be equal.

It comes as new government plans suggested men who murder their expartners will be jailed for longer.

But campaigners warned the reforms do not "go far enough".

Carole, Julie and Elaine, in a joint statement, told the Daily Express: "By still only using the aggravating factor route to potentially harsher sentences, the Government are still saying that these murderers are not as dangerous as those who murder strangers outside.