Women should be told if new partner has abusive past, say victims’ groups

Angela Best’s sisters, Valerie Archibold and Lorraine Jones, and mother Josephine outside the Old Bailey in London after serial killer Theodore Johnson was jailed for a minimum term of 26 years for murder.Victim support groups are calling on MPs to back a new law allowing police to take proactive measures to establish whether a serious offender has a new partner, and if so to inform them of his previous convictions.The call comes after the jailing of serial killer Theodore Johnson, 64, who