Shocking new figures reveal rise in domestic abuse incidents in South Lanarkshire
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dailyrecord.co.ukShocking new figures have revealed that there are over NINE incidents of domestic violence within South Lanarkshire each day.Statistics in a report from the Scottish Government revealed 3504 incidents of domestic abuse were recorded by the police in the council area in 2018-19.The rise comes at a time when the SNP have effectively abolished jail sentences of less than a year with greater emphasis on community sentences.
And Tory MSP and former East Kilbride councillor Graham Simpson claims this is risking domestic abusers being “let off the hook”.
Across Scotland, the number of domestic abuse cases rose for the third year in a row to 60,641, a new all-time high.Around four in every five cases involved a female victim and male perpetrator,
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