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   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y3w0pzydo

   A woman stabbed 24 times by her ex-partner while eight months pregnant says she is living in fear after learning he will be eligible for open prison years earlier than she expected.

   In June 2016, Babur Raja was given an 18-year sentence for the attempted murder of Natalie Queiroz, having attacked her on a Sutton Coldfield street months before.

   She has since tried to pick up the pieces of her life, drawing some comfort from his being behind bars.

   But the government has confirmed to the BBC a rule change that means Raja's eligibility to serve the rest of his sentence in open prison kicks in this year, rather than 2029 as his victim once thought. And that, she says, "make me physically ill".

   "The thought that somebody who [tried to] murder you and your child could be outside, even on day release, four years earlier than I was expecting - my fear of risk to me, to my child, to my other two children is now huge," the 49-year-old said.