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“Abusive partners will injure the pet intentionally or threaten to injure the pet. According to research from Women’s Refuge, about 24% of women in abusive relationships had a pet killed by their abuser.

If a physical consumer product was linked to the deaths of children, it would be recalled immediately. Social media should not be treated differently because it’s digital.

The Government is being urged to scrap “good character” discounts for child sex offenders at sentencing, amid mounting global criticism that it minimises the severity of the crime while compounding the trauma of its victims.