Mother of teenager murdered by ex warns ‘end of a relationship is the most dangerous time in a woman
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As knife crime against women and girls rises, Lydia Patrick talks to the families who have lost their loved ones to violent ex-partners.
A grieving mother whose 17-year-old daughter was killed by an ex-boyfriend has warned that the ending of a relationship is the most dangerous time in a woman’s life.
Carole Gould has relentlessly campaigned for justice for women killed by men since her daughter Ellie was stabbed and strangled to death by her partner of three months after she ended the relationship.
Thomas Griffiths was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 12 and a half years in 2019 after he walked into Ellie’s family home, strangled her then stabbed her 13 times, attempting to frame the attack as a suicide by inserting the knife in the side of her neck.
Mrs Gould, 53, is hoping the government’s consultation on knife crime will address a legal loophole and allow for tougher sentences. As it stands, murderers who kill their victims with a knife in the home face a 15...
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