UK, remember your settings and improve government services. We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services. You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time. You have rejected additional cookies. Cowards who kill their partners with sexual violence will face longer behind bars as the government continues to clamp down on domestic abuse against women. Having led a ground-breaking scheme to overhaul the way in which police forces investigate rape β Operation Soteria β Professor Hohl also carried out one of the largest ever surveys of victims to better understand how they can be supported.
Through the Victims and Prisoners Bill, police, prosecutors and prison and probation workers will also have a new Code Awareness Duty to make sure victims know their rights - including the right to be referred to a support service, receive updates on their case and the right to make a victim personal statement.
But we must also hold offenders to account. This new aggravating factor send a clear message that killers who threaten the safety of women can expect to feel the full force of the law. This builds on work to make sure victims get the justice they deserve, and offenders pay for their crimes, including making rapists and serious sexual offenders serve their full custodial term in prison and to widening the use of whole life orders for the worst offenders.
Rape is the most serious survivable crime in English and Welsh law. The purpose of the rape review is to reform the criminal justice process so it is fit for purpose for rape victims and effective in holding perpetrators to account.
As the Independent Advisor, I will challenge and support the government in achieving this ambition. I commend the progress made to date. This is an important step in ensuring that men who kill women in sexually motivated violence do not get away with a lighter sentence.
