Victim Equality News Today

Trauma and grief caused by domestic homicides are for life, according to a new study — and support for the bereaved should too be for life, writes Cormac OKeeffe

The second-grader was adopted by her grandmother on National Adoption Day.

The second-grader was adopted by her grandmother on National Adoption Day.

Brian Hennessy Postman Hennessy was handed three consecutive life terms after being convicted of all three murders in 2009, but the sentences were softened — to run concurrently — following a successful appeal. In the wake of the appeal, Sharon’s bother John set up the Sentencing and Victim Equality (SAVE) group. The group campaigns for a minimum tariff on life sentences before a murderer can be paroled and for convicted murderers to be automatically placed on the sex offenders’ list i...