These offences are: • Murder • Culpable homicide • Assault to the danger of life • Abduction • Plagium (the crime of stealing a child) • A sexual offence to which section 288C of the 1995 Act applies 2 This document relates to the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Bill as amended at Stage 2 (SP Bill 34A) • A course of abusive behaviour towards a partner or ex-partner, under section 1(1) of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 • An offence which is aggravated by involving the abuse of a partner or ex-partner, as provided for in Part 1 of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016. • An offence which is alleged to have occurred before 24 April 2017, when the new domestic abuse aggravator came into force, and where the aggravator would have applied if the offence had occurred more recently • an offence of human trafficking • an offence of slavery, servitude, and forced or compulsory labour • an offence of female genital mutilation • an offence of aiding and abetting female genital mutilation • an attempt to commit an offence mentioned in any of the bullets above 8.