Some offenders to be 'locked' in restricted areas after prison

Restriction zones aimed at "locking" violent offenders - rather than their victims - into specific areas when they are released from prison are to be introduced by the UK government.

- Steven Morris

At the moment, exclusion zones are often used to keep an offender away from their victim's home but many campaigners for women's safety have long called for this to be flipped.

They argue a system of offender restriction zones will give victims more freedom because they can travel widely in the confidence they will not bump into their perpetrator.

Technology, such as electronic tags, would be used to make sure offenders stayed in their zone.