Submitted by Beverley Hudson on Thursday 13th November 2025
Published on Monday 29th December 2025
Current status: Open
Open until: Monday 29th June 2026
Current Signatures: 382
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Tagged with
abuse ~ abuse cases ~ Coercion ~ Controlled ~ Controlling ~ Courts ~ Criminal ~ Crown ~ Crown Court ~ Domestic ~ Domestic abuse ~ Driving ~ Face ~ face justice ~ Justices ~ Law ~ Leading ~ Moral ~ Morally ~ Reform ~ The Law ~ URGENT ~ Victim ~ Violence
Make coercive or controlling behaviour leading to suicide a specific offence
Domestic violence and coercive control can destroy lives, sometimes driving victims to suicide. Yet the law fails to recognise this as a specific criminal offence.
We call for urgent reform to make coercion leading to suicide within domestic abuse cases a specific offence, ensuring perpetrators face justice in Crown Court. This is not just a legal need, but a moral one.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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