Marie McCourt’s campaigning led to the Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act being enacted in 2021.
A murder victim’s mother who campaigned to bring in Helen’s Law said it was hard receiving an MBE as her daughter’s body has never been found.
Following her daughter’s death, Mrs McCourt’s campaigning led to the Prisoners Act, dubbed Helen’s Law, being enacted in 2021. She said: “We’re still helping families of victims … it’s hard for me, so many people come to me for help and it breaks me.”“It helps families to know that they have got the person who took their family members, that they can now rest and most of all the family can rest.“It’s the most horrible thing that people take joy in taking a life, I think they should never be allowed out of because they are very cruel.
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