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Amendment 334A addresses this in two key ways. First, where the encouragement or assistance of self-harm is preceded by a history of domestic or honour-based abuse, such offences must be treated as aggravating for sentencing purposes. Secondly, it allows the court to sentence to life imprisonment perpetrators who have caused a person such serious physical, psychological or psychiatric harm that it leads them to take their own life, as would be the case for the crime of murder.