Attack victim's relief at Clare's Law
A woman who was brutally attacked by her lover, who beat her with a baseball bat, has welcomed new powers that begin today to protect people from domestic abuse.
From today, the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme, also known as Clare's Law, comes in to force.
It gives people the right to ask police whether a new or existing partner has a violent past.
Kaylin Mauchlen has been campaigning for tougher laws to be introduced since her former lover Luke Strain was jailed last October for 16 months at Shrewsbury Crown Court following a brutal attack on her in which he fractured her arm and caused extensive bruising, cuts and wounds.
Strain, of Upper Galdeford, Ludlow, is due to be released from prison later this month.
But Kaylin is willing to speak out against domestic violence to stop other women suffering the same fate she did.
Kaylin, 21, who lives near Shrewsbury, said: "It has been almost a year since he attacked me.
"He did it repeatedly each day through our nine-month relationship and it took me all my strength to walk away from him.
"But since then I have called for this sort of law to come in to force. Being able to check up on a partner is great but the onus is still on the woman getting the information from the police."
Clare's Law is named after Clare Wood, a 36-year-old killed by a man she met on Facebook.
