No Amount Of Laws Will Prevent This!

Holly Bramley's life was barbarically snatched away when she was murdered by her husband of nine years. The 26-year-old had been isolated from her family by 'evil monster' Nicholas Meston, who convinced her that her family didn't love her. He moved her 50 miles away from them without telling anyone - and the pair eventually tied the knot.

It's a sad story, and a familiar one, a woman so lacking in self-confidence and a sense of self-worth that a man becomes everything to her, no matter what he does... 

In the nine years Holly was with Metson, she was alienated from her parents, who were never invited to her wedding and didn't know it was happening. Tragically, it would only be 18 months later that he would cut up her body into 224 pieces at their Lincoln home before dumping her remains in a bag for life in a river. In the run-up to her murder in March 2023, Holly had reported Metson to the police for killing her pets in a gruesome fashion. On one occasion, she found her new puppy dead inside a washing machine with the drum still spinning after her husband dumped the dog inside. Another time, she fled to a police station with her rabbits in a bid to escape after he had killed her hamsters by putting them in a food blender and a microwave oven.

And did the authorities act? Well, they tried.  

However, according to her mother, Annette, the RSPCA were never able to bring any charges against Meston because her daughter had withdrawn her statement.

And, unwilling to accept that she's somehow bred and raised a woman so lacking in the instincts of self-preservation, her mother wants to make it everyone else's fault, hence the inevitable demand for legislation: 

Her grieving mother, pushing for a new law, said she had done everything in her power to convince her youngest daughter to walk away from the deadly relationship.In a bid to help others in a similar situation to her daughter, Annette is now calling for Holly's Law. The proposed legislation would see a nationwide animal cruelty register created for individuals who harm or kill animals, to be brought into legislation.

Personally, I'm in favour of such a law, but purely on it's own merits, not to try to prevent more deaths like this one. Nothing will do that, except raising daughters to have enough self-worth that they don't subsume their entire personality to a brute.  

Annette's petition for an animal cruelty register has reached over 50,000 signatures as she remains hopeful it will be brought into legislation similarly to Clare's Law.

And when the next murder happens despite this, what will be demanded then?