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Anger as ministers reject register for serial domestic abuser and stalkers Maya Oppenheim © Provided by The Independent The government’s decision to vote against putting serial domestic abuse and stalking perpetrators on a national register has sparked outrage. MPs voted down an amendment to the domestic abuse bill on Thursday which would have placed serial domestic abusers and stalkers on the existing violent and sexual offenders register. An amendment to the landmark legi...

27 January 2021 • 8:00am It’s a call that no parent would ever want to receive. To discover your child has been arrested for shoplifting and the police want you to come down to the station.  Yet it could get even worse. Parliament is currently debating a piece of legislation that will allow the police – as well as local councils, the gambling commission and the tax office – to recruit your teenager to inform on you, and indeed enable them to commit criminal acts as part of this. And yo...