www.thetimes.co.uk/article/domestic-abuse-bill-activists-win-fight-throttling-crime-srb3j039d
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Activists have won the fight. Abusers who throttle their partners will face five years in jail after ministers bowed to campaigners to include it in the government’s Domestic Abuse Bill.
It will make non-fatal strangulation and suffocation a criminal offence amid concerns that many perpetrators receive lenient sentences because they are charged only with common assault.