Domestic abusers and sex offenders will be ‘locked in’ to specific restrictions zones to keep them away from victims when they are released from prison, under a new law.

Until now, exclusion zones have prevented offenders from going where their victims live.

But many survivors – and their families – have been left feeling like prisoners in their own home, limiting themselves to that small area through fear of bumping into perpetrators.

The new plans shifting that responsibility onto perpetrators by placing more restrictions on their movements have been welcomed by campaigners.

Diana Parkes CBE and Hetti Barkworth-Nanton CBE, co-founders of the Joanna Simpson Foundation, said: ‘For far too long, victims have had to reshape their lives to avoid their offenders.

‘Exclusion zones have mad

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