THE most dangerous domestic abusers will be monitored more closely and electronically tagged under a raft of new proposals announced today.

The government also plans to spend up to £8.4 million over two years on specialist victim-support programmes and has promised to make police prioritise tackling violence against women and girls.

Some 2.4 million people in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse in the last year, and about one in five homicides are related to it, according to the Home Office.