Sometimes the most terrible things provide the opportunity for us to change things for the better.
This request is neither cynical nor overly ambitious: is so bad, so sad, that I have instinctively pulled away from the details and the allegations about the lead up to her death. It is raw. It is hard to face. But that is part of the problem; wishing it had never happened will never be the solution.
Molly Ticehurst’s alleged murderer Daniel Billings had been released on bail just weeks ago after being accused of sexually assaulting her. As a community, we are looking away from what is going wrong, and we are failing to face up to what must be done. It is now obvious our laws which restrict males stalking females those laws are grossly inadequate for protecting the women in our community. In Molly’s case, charges have only just been laid, but notwithstanding, in other cases, the existing laws have been proved to fail – they fail day after day.Our social history tells us that when our laws are failing, we change the laws.
It is a principle of our criminal law that it should operate as a deterrent – maybe telling dangerous men that their locations will be monitored will do that. Would saving one woman’s life justify this intrusion? I say yes. I hear politicians making noble and well-meaning requests for a cultural change – there is no reason to think that is enough. And a cultural change might take decades. Now is the time to act; now is the time to stop this terrible cycle of violence; now is the time to impose change.
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