Great news! The UK Prime Minister has announced plans for new laws for mandatory sentencing of rapist murderers to life with no parole. This guarantees they will never be free to repeat their crimes.
This is exactly what I and many others are fighting for in Australia! We are calling on Australia’s politicians to follow their lead.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said:
“I have shared the public’s horror at the cruelty of crimes we have seen recently. People rightly expect that in the most serious cases, there should be a guarantee that life will mean life. They expect honesty in sentencing.”
“By bringing in mandatory whole life orders for the heinous criminals who commit the most horrific types of murder, we will make sure they will never be free.”
UK Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Alex Chalk KC, said:
“A whole life order will now be the expectation for murderers where the killing involves sexual or sadistic conduct.”
“This important law change will ensure that the worst of the worst can now expect to spend the rest of their lives in prison.”
For more information, please see the press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on 23 August 2023:
It is time to call our politicians in Australia to follow the UK’s lead.
Women and children deserve to be safe from these brutal killers.
Victim families deserve justice and a guarantee the offender will never repeat their crimes.
I have a petition on Change.org calling for this law reform in Australia and am working with homicide victim families and supporters to lobby politicians for this reform. Please sign the petition Life For Rapist Murderers and share.
Please also contact the Attorney General in your state and call for their commitment to this much needed law reform.
For updates on the campaign nationally and by state please see the Law Reform pages on this site.
Together we can make this law reform a reality. Thank you.
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