Dr Marie Tidball

Dr Marie Tidball

Labour — Penistone and Stocksbridge

Speaking in the House of Commons on 19 December 2024

Debate

Business of the House

Contribution

I take this opportunity to wish all colleagues in the Chamber and beyond it a very merry Christmas. Ten years ago, my constituent Claire Throssell promised her sons, who had died at the hands of their domestically abusive father, that no other children would die in the same tragic circumstances. This week has seen the sentencing of Sara Sharif’s father and stepmother, who murdered her. Too many children have died at the hands of known domestically abusive parents who have been granted unsupervised contact in the family courts. Will the Leader of the House make time for a debate on changing the law on presumptive contact in order to prevent further child deaths at the hands of known domestically abusive parents?

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