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There is still a core problem with using stalking law created in 2012. As I said, the CPS often charges using harassment crimes rather than specific stalking crimes. This has key consequences. First, the victims feel let down and feel that justice has let them down. If their stalker is a fixated and manipulative perpetrator, it tells the perpetrator that what they have done is not serious; that is why Amendment 332 was tabled. Despite the good news from Richard Wright’s review, it is rightly important that Parliament is reassured that there is a full assessment of why stalking legislation is not used by the CPS, even with repeat stalkers. The review should be about not just the new cyber and other important forms of stalking but the old ones, which we are still trying to get right.