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In England and Wales, whole-life imprisonment is the harshest sanction available to the courts, emerging in the decades after the abolition of the death penalty. The whole-life order requires people to spend their whole lives in prison with no prospect of release, except on exceptional compassionate grounds.

So many reviews, so much hand-wringing, yet misogyny in England and Wales’s police forces and impunity for offenders remains the norm, says Joan Smith, former co-chair of the Mayor of London’s VAWG Board

The latest report from the Angiolini Inquiry found that there no record of how many women were raped by strangers in England and Wales last year.

Official report says forces in England and Wales yet to implement recommendations for investigations

Elish Angiolini has called for leaders to ‘get a move on’ to protect women in public spaces, as Sarah Everard’s mother Susan, says she is still tormented by the horrors of her daughter’s final hours

A petition was recently set up by a UCL student calling for women’s only spaces on the Tube to help prevent harassment

Ex-Met Police PC David Carrick was found guilty of further rapes and sexual assaults after an Old Bailey trial

David Carrick was found guilty by the Old Bailey jury which deliberated for more than five hours

Detective Katherine Goodwin was decorated with the King’s Police Medal by Charles during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.