One of the world’s leading experts on domestic abuse and coercive control has told STV News more needs to be done to prevent women being murdered by their partners.
Laura Richards was speaking just weeks after the death of Marelle Sturrock, who was killed by her fiancé in Glasgow.
A taskforce, aimed at learning from such cases in Scotland, hopes to have a system for reviewing the background to domestic homicides ready to pilot by the end of the year.
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