More should be done for victims

Almost weekly we read on the Hastings Magistrates’ Court page that cases of domestic violence or ‘assaulting a woman by beating’ are punished by a derisory fine or the ever present community order.

When the courts start to take this problem seriously then perhaps we will see a fall in cases which often, owing to lack of accountability, escalate to something more serious.

Derek Stocker

Duke Street

Bexhill

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