Schedule 7 - Minor and consequential amendments
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Mr Paul Goggins (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Wythenshawe and Sale East, Labour)
As I said, we are thinking carefully about all the issues, but we do not believe that honour killings should be described in that way and included in the list. The aggravating factors, which are already covered, would capture these horrendous killings, which are often carried out by family members and
are generally premeditated. Some of them may be contract killings, and there may sometimes be an abuse of a position of trust. Those are all strong aggravating factors in the legislation that can play into the sentencing for a murder.