Extract from second reading debate (Commons) on the Domestic Abuse Bill - Apr 28

Wednesday, 29 April 2020 08:18

Nick Thomas-Symonds (Torfaen) (Lab):...The lockdown has changed patterns of crime. Over the weekend, the National Crime Agency announced that it had alerted the police to 1,300 potential child sexual abuse cases and that it had also recently arrested a British man possessing indecent images of children who was attempting to re-enter the UK from the Philippines. That paints a worrying picture and we must do all in our power to stop such abuses and prevent them from ever taking place. I pay...Request free trial