It is such a shame Grace was murdered only 2 days before NZ's new strangulation law came into force on Dec 3 2018
Police have charged almost five people a day with strangling or suffocating their partners since a new family violence law came into force criminalising such acts in December.
And a woman who survived a horror strangling incident, and years of other abuse at the hands of her partner, has spoken out about her ordeal to help people understand how serious the problem really is.
New Zealand has the worst rate of family and intimate-partner violence in the developed world and police are called to an incident every four minutes.
In a bid to curb family violence, new legislation was introduced to make strangulation and suffocation a criminal offence.
Previously there was no separate offence for strangulation as it was treated as assault.
The change was part of the Family Violence Amendment Act, replacing the Domestic Violence Act.
The first person to be charged under the new law - the day it came into force on December 3 - was a South Auckland man.
Since then 416 people in total have been charged, around 33 per week and almost five each day.
A woman who was suffocated by her partner almost daily and strangled in a terrifying assault where she blacked out and thought she was dying has shared her story to highlight the atrocious statistics.
"He strangled me until I was unconscious," Jessica told the Herald.
Hands off: police making five strangulation arrests a day, victim relives 'terrifying' ordeal
And a woman who survived a horror strangling incident, and years of other abuse at the hands of her partner, has spoken out about her ordeal to help people understand how serious the problem really is.
New Zealand has the worst rate of family and intimate-partner violence in the developed world and police are called to an incident every four minutes.
In a bid to curb family violence, new legislation was introduced to make strangulation and suffocation a criminal offence.
Previously there was no separate offence for strangulation as it was treated as assault.
The change was part of the Family Violence Amendment Act, replacing the Domestic Violence Act.
The first person to be charged under the new law - the day it came into force on December 3 - was a South Auckland man.
Since then 416 people in total have been charged, around 33 per week and almost five each day.
A woman who was suffocated by her partner almost daily and strangled in a terrifying assault where she blacked out and thought she was dying has shared her story to highlight the atrocious statistics.
"He strangled me until I was unconscious," Jessica told the Herald.
Hands off: police making five strangulation arrests a day, victim relives 'terrifying' ordeal