Scotland’s justice secretary is calling for a UK summit to tackle a national failure to identify serial domestic abusers.
Humza Yousaf was reacting to demands serial attackers should be on a register and monitored like terrorists and sex offenders.
The move comes after we revealed systematic failures had allowed serial attacker David Kerr to criss-cross the UK, brutalising multiple women.
Kerr, 37, abused and viciously assaulted three women, including breaking into the home of his ex-partner Amy Clarke and strangling her until she passed out.
Yousaf said: “It’s a horrendous case and women have been let down by systems that are supposed to be there to protect them from serial abusers.
“I suspect this is just one case that highlights failures in the system that have affected many women.
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