AAFDA CEO Frank Mullane Awarded MBE in 2019 New Year's Honours list
AAFDA calls for a new law which captures the culpability of perpetrators of domestic abuse as regards these deaths and which enables juries to see more clearly the causation of suicide from domestic abuse. Without a new law to clarify this culpability, AAFDA fears that many perpetrators will evade appropriate criminal accountability and that victims’ families will have to continue to live with the pain of justice not being done. AAFDA therefore calls for:
- A new law crafted to assist juries to recognise the causative relationship between domestic abuse and suicide and which would attract a similar sentence to the offence of manslaughter.
- Coercive control to be brought under the remit of Extended Determinate Sentences.
Launched at the AAFDA national Conference “Tip of the Iceberg” on 25 September 2025.
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