Campaigner Una Butler 'enraged' her views on mental health not included in study

Una Butler with her daughter Ella in 2010. Ms Butler has been campaigning to make it mandatory for partners to be involved in the mental health treatment their partner receives in a relationship where there are children.

A woman whose husband killed their daughters has said she is on the verge of giving up fighting to change laws that she says could save children’s lives.

Una Butler has been campaigning to make it mandatory for partners to be involved in the mental health treatment their partner receives in a relationship where there are children. She launched the campaign after her husband John killed Ella, two, and Zoe, six, at their home in Ballycotton, Co. Cork, in November 2010 before taking his own life.