Ministers have been accused of misleading and insulting victims after a push by a cross-party group of peers to create an automatic register of dangerous domestic abusers and stalkers was dropped. The domestic abuse bill is expected to receive royal assent this week, four years after it was announced in the Queen’s Speech.

But it will not include a specific stalkers’ register, despite briefings from the government after the death of Sarah Everard that they were likely to support such a measure.

Instead, after sustained pressure from cross-party MPs and peers, the government promised to improve statutory guidance around the current system for monitoring high-risk criminals to better include serial stalkers and domestic abusers.

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