'This Could Save Women's Lives'

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Sadistic bully Stephen Spence begins the first day of a prison sentence today. Jim Entwistle speaks to police and victims of domestic violence about how such perpetrators are brought to justice, and why a register would save lives

STEPHEN SPENCE will awake this morning surrounded by the bars that will contain him for years ahead. The 51-year-old slaughterman was jailed yesterday for a string of horrific domestic abuse offences against two women. His favourite trick was branding them with a steam iron when they disobeyed him. A laugh out of place and he would punch them until they lost consciousness, and then punch them some more.

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'This Could Save Women's Lives'

The indefinite sentence, with a minimum term of four years, has been met with a notable silence by police, who are pushing for domestic violence perpetrators to be punished with tougher sentences.

Last week, at Darlington Magistrates' Cour...

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