A new bill would bring Victoria's strangulation laws in line with other states – but consent complicates matters

By Heather Douglas, Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne

In October 2011, Victorian woman Joy Rowley was strangled to death by her intimate partner. It was not the first time he had strangled her. Over the eight-month period leading up to her death she had called the police multiple times to report strangulation attacks.

In the inquest that followed, the coroner highlighted an incident months before she died that involved strangulation and a knife. Police did not lay charges against the offender James Mulhall…

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