The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026
UK parliament to debate whether all suicides linked to domestic abuse to be investigated as homicide
Lib Dems table amendment to crime and policing bill, saying system ‘simply not doing enough to protect women’ Parliament is to debate whether all suicides in cases involving victims of domestic abuse should be investigated as homicide. The Liberal Democrats have tabled an amendment to the crime and policing bill saying that if “there is reasonable suspicion that a death by suicide has been preceded by a history of domestic abuse committed against the person by another person, the relevant police
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