MORE than 30 domestic abusers are serving a combined 215 years behind bars after being convicted following investigations by a police task force.
Since April 1 this year, the work of Police Scotland’s domestic abuse task force has resulted in 32 offenders being jailed, with individual sentences ranging from 18 months to 15 years, the force said.
Police said they are called to a domestic abuse incident every nine minutes on average, with nearly 65,000 such incidents reported to the force in 2021/22.
