UK: Police will not target offenders against law on violent porn

Guardian:

Officers will not actively target members of the public to track down those who own violent pornography banned under a new law, police chiefs admitted yesterday.

The law, which comes into effect today, was passed in response to a three-year campaign by the mother of the teacher Jane Longhurst, who was murdered by a man obsessed with hardcore internet pornography . . .

BBC: Mother’s violent porn ban now law

A law banning violent online porn has come into force following a campaign by a mother whose daughter was murdered . . . “When people are allowed to download images of death, murder and mutilation it helps normalise fantasies – another step is then acting it out in the case of Jane Longhurst . . . “