Domestic abusers who murder their partners should be stripped of all parental rights, say campaigners.

Survivors and their families are calling on the government to introduce Jade’s Law as part of its strategy to tackle violence against women and girls.

It is named after Jade Ward, who was murdered by her ex-partner in 2021.

Her family called for a law change after her killer attempted to keep taking decisions relating to their four children.

The Joanna Simpson Foundation – along with children and carers bereaved by intimate partner homicide – say the measure will ‘protect children from further trauma and prevent perpetrators from exerting control from behind bars’.

Founder Diana Parkes CBE became carer for her daughter Joanna’s young children ‘overnight’ after she was killed by her p

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