17-year-old Ellie Gould was half method by way of her A ranges when she was stabbed to demise by her first boyfriend – a fellow scholar, in her household dwelling in Wiltshire. Ellie had damaged off the ‘suffocating’ 3 month relationship the evening earlier than.
24-year-old Poppy Devey-Waterhouse was a quantitative buying and selling analyst residing in a flat in Leeds along with her boyfriend of three years. She had ended the connection and was attributable to depart. Her baggage have been packed. Earlier than she may, her boyfriend attacked and killed her – she was asleep in her mattress. He inflicted 100 accidents upon her as she tried to flee.
If these males had taken a knife and killed the ladies on the street or in a park, their minimal jail time period would have been 25 years. However as a result of they killed them of their properties – it wasn’t.
Ellie and Poppy’s mums – Carole Gould and Julie Devey have cast a friendship over what they see as an injustice, and have come collectively to attempt to change what they name an ‘immoral’ disparity in sentencing.
As a part of Newsnight’s focus this 12 months on questions over the justice system, Victoria Derbyshire spoke to Carole and Julie of their first interview since assembly with the Victims Minister.
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