CPS mark 10 years since criminalisation of coercive control noting rising numbers of prosecutions for coercive control but also for strangulation

On 29 December 2025, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issued a Press Release entitled "Rise in coercive control charges marks a decade of progress”. They wrote: “Ten years after coercive control became a criminal offence, charges for this hidden form of domestic abuse…
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