‘Imagine this was your daughter’: how grieving mothers campaigned to close sentencing gap

Justice Secretary David Lammy has increased minimum sentences for domestic murder, following years of campaigning by mothers who lost daughters to intimate partner violence. According to The Guardian, Carole Gould—whose seventeen-year-old daughter Ellie was killed by her partner in 2019—and Julie Devey, whose daughter Poppy was murdered in 2018—presented Lammy with photographs and made the case for closing what they call the sentencing gap. Their effort strengthens justice for women killed at home.

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