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The government will strengthen its proposed law to criminalise stalking, including broadening the criteria to a longer timeframe.
The Crime Legislation (Stalking and Harassment) Amendment Bill would have sent stalkers to jail for five years if they committed three such acts within a year, that threshold now being lowered to two acts over two years.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said the government had accepted the change as one of several recommended unanimously by the Select Committee in response to 608 written and 62 oral sub
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