Nearly 13,000 cases of domestic abuse have been dropped in the last five years because of a six-month time limit on prosecutions of common assault, according to figures obtained by the BBC.
Erica made a report of domestic violence to the police but was told there was no time left to press charges. Now she’s campaigning for change and says she is using her story as “power to fight back against the law.”
Read more here: Huge rise in domestic abuse cases being dropped in England and Wales
