Headline : Major breakthrough in Mirror Justice for our Daughters campaign with key demands met

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At the beginning of this year, the Mirror launched a campaign to demand justice for victims of domestic violence.

Each week, two women die and thousands more suffer physical or mental abuse at the hands of their husbands or partners. Our Justice for our Daughters campaign was set up to ensure anyone guilty of such crimes receives the punishment they deserve.

In a significant breakthrough, the Ministry of Justice has now ordered judges to consider stronger sentences for murders involving strangulation or when the killing is connected to the end of a relationship.Ministers have also instructed the Law Commission to review sentences for homicide to end the anomaly whereby someone who kills someone with a weapon in the home gets a shorter mandatory sentence than the same crime outside of a domestic setting.

These two measures were key demands of our campaign. But we will keep campaigning until there is a justice system that truly serves victims of domestic homicide and abuse.

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