#GLOBALNEWS Grief-stricken family of BC hammer attack victim launch campaign to end intimate partner violence

Bailey McCourt, a 32-year-old a mother of two, was beaten to death with a hammer in a Kelowna, B.C., parking lot on July 4.

Her ex-husband James Plover was charged with second-degree murder not long after.

McCourt’s father, stepmother and family members such as Henderson are calling the advocacy campaign Bailey’s Law, which includes a number of legislative changes they say are urgently needed to protect victims of intimate partner violence.

Global’s Klaudia Van Emmerik reports.