No stalkers’ register in domestic abuse bill an ‘insult to victims’

Government faces criticism after cross-party peers abandon push to create automatic register

Ministers have been accused of misleading and insulting victims after a cross-party group of peers abandoned a push to create an automatic register of dangerous domestic abusers and stalkers.

The domestic abuse bill is expected to receive royal assent this week, four years after it was announced in the Queen's speech. But it will not include a specific stalkers' register, despite briefings from the government after the death of Sarah Everard that it was likely to support such a measure.