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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Steven Morris

Women harmed after Wiltshire police failed to disclose partners’ violent pasts

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Clare’s law gives people the right to ask police whether their partner has a violent past. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

At least two women were harmed after a “catastrophic” failure in the way a police force dealt with applications under Clare’s law, which gives people the right to ask whether a partner has a violent past, it has emerged.

Wiltshire police has reviewed more than 3,500 applications made under the domestic violence disclosure scheme over an eight-year period and identified 25 failures.

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