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A mother whose daughter died at the hands of a man obsessed with violent internet porn is set to win her fight for a ban on possessing such images.
The BBC has learned the government will announce a ban on Wednesday on the possession of violent sexual images.
It follows a campaign by Berkshire woman Liz Longhurst whose daughter Jane, a Brighton schoolteacher, was killed by Graham Coutts.
Mrs Longhurst's campaign was backed by MPs and a 50,000 signature petition.
Hidden body
In November last year the petition won cross-party support when it was presented to the House of Commons and was backed publicly by the solicitor general Harriet Harman MP.
Since her daughter's death Mrs Longhurst, 74, from Reading, has fought a long campaign to ban the possession of images of sexual violence.
Mrs Longhurst said: "My daughter Sue and myself are very pleased that after 30 months of intensive campaigning we have persuaded the government to take action against these horrific internet sites, which can have such a corrupting influence and glorify extreme sexual violence."
Jane Longhurst, 31, was found dead on Wiggonholt Common, near Pulborough, West Sussex, on 19 April 2003.
She had been strangled with a pair of tights and her body kept in storage for weeks before it was found.
In 2004, musician Coutts, 36, of Waterloo Street, Hove, West Sussex, was convicted of her murder and on appeal he was ordered to serve a minimum 26 years in jail.
Trial jurors had heard about Coutts's obsession with strangulation and how he looked at internet sites connected with the fetish.
At the moment it is a crime to make or publish the images but campaigners say that does not stop people viewing the images on their computer through sites beyond the reach of the British courts.
Mrs Longhurst said legislation, which would apply to websites wherever they were based in the world, would mean her daughter's death had not been "entirely in vain".
The move by the government would close a legal loophole.
Reading West MP Martin Salter, who backed the campaign, said: "This campaign has taken a huge amount of time and effort but it has struck a chord right across the country.
"It is great news that the Government has not only listened but has responded to calls to outlaw access to sickening internet images, which can so easily send vulnerable people over the edge."
This year five Law Lords sent Coutts' case back to the Court of Appeal to "invite that court to quash the conviction".
It was argued that jurors in the original trial should have been offered the option of manslaughter as well as a murder verdict.