“What steps she is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help improve prosecution rates for crimes of technology-facilitated violence against women and girls.”
Asked by
Dr Beccy Cooper
Answering Minister
the Attorney General
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Yvette Cooper)
We remember those who have lost their lives to knife crime, including 17-year-old Thomas Taylor, killed in Bedford, and 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa, killed in Woolwich just last week. Kelyan’s mother said: “I tried to prevent it. I’ve tried so many, so many times.” No mother should live with that grief or feel that level of fear for her teenage son. That is why this Government have set up the coalition to tackle knife crime, which involves families, alongside taking new action on serious violence.