'Take abuse in the home seriously' STORMONT.SOFT sentences for wife beaters are discouraging victims from reporting the crime, it was claimed yesterday. Politicians yesterday called for judges to get tougher during a debate at Stormont Assembly. Police received more than 23,000 reports of violence against male and female partners or family members last year. The cost in terms of policing and other support agencies is estimated at pounds 180million a year. Sinn Fein's Jennifer McCann Jennifer McCann MLA is an Irish republican politician in Northern Ireland, who was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Sinn Féin member for West Belfast. said victims fear their allegations will not be taken seriously. The DUP's Lord Morrow mor·row n. 1. The following day: resolved to set out on the morrow. 2. The time immediately subsequent to a particular event. 3. Archaic The morning. said: "Domestic violence seems to be treated different than violence on the street." |
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