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Review of one-punch attacks expected after campaign by bereaved MP

Source: PA Archive

A review of one-punch attacks is expected to be conducted by the Government following lengthy campaigning by a Conservative MP whose father was killed by a single blow when she was 13.

Dehenna Davison described her late father as a “brilliant dad” as she called for tougher sentencing for perpetrators of one-punch homicides.

Ms Davison has previously told Parliament that her father’s attacker was released from prison after 18 months.

And that is why since then

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