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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Namita Singh

Utah backs law on intimate partner violence to prevent other women suffering Gabby Petito’s fate

AP

Gabby Petito’s parents joined Utah lawmakers on Monday as the Senate unanimously voted in favour of a bill that could strengthen the way police investigated incidents of intimate partner violence in the state.

The parents of the 22-year-old, who was strangled to death less than two years ago while on a trip with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, said that a stronger lethality assessment by law enforcement officials would have possibly prevented their daughter’s fatal end.

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