A Perthshire mum whose dedicated campaign to introduce better legal safeguards for pregnant women who are victims of violence could see her calls become integrated into existing domestic abuse laws.
Nicola Murray set up a petition last year to introduce an Unborn Victims of Violence Act – or Brodie’s Law – to create a specific offence that enables courts to hand down longer sentences for perpetrators of domestic violence that causes miscarriage.
The Stanley native suffered three tragic miscarriages at the hands of violent ex-partners, where in one shocking incident she was knocked her over by a car driven by a former partner when she was just six weeks’ pregnant.
