They're saying our daughters' 'lives are not worth as much as somebody being killed on the streets

Mums' outrage over jail term given to her girl's ex. Mirror campaign as time ticks on law change hopes

- LYDIA VELJANOVSKI

MUMS whose daughters were killed in domestic violence attacks say their grief is being compounded by the injustice of the sentences handed to the murderers.

In most circumstances, if an abuser murders a partner or family member in their own home they will get a life sentence with a minimum term of 15 years - 10 years fewer than if they had killed the same person in the street.

Families who have been calling on the Government to end this disparity have won a public consultation into the issue, and now have just five weeks left to rally support in their battle to bring about a change in the law.

The Mirror is today launching a campaign - Justice for our Daughters - to help the bid to stop domestic violence killers being jailed for a decade less than other murderers.

Grieving mum Carole Gould said: "They're basically saying our daughters' lives aren't worth as much as somebody being killed on the street." Her 17-year-old daughter Ellie was murdered in her home in 2019 by her ex-boyfriend Thomas Griffiths.

Griffiths, also 17 at the time, began strangling her then stabbed her 13 times in the neck.

The killer was given a minimum term of 12 years, six months (this works out as 15 years minus three-and-a-half years for being aged under 18). The sentence would have been 10 years more had the crime been in the street.

Carole, 53, said: "If somebody stabbed somebody once in a park that's worth 25 years.