ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Newfoundland and Labrador’s Justice Minister has written to his federal counterpart to ask for changes to the Criminal Code relating to bail and detention in cases of intimate partner violence.

John Hogan wrote the letter to Arif Virani last month, about a week after a St. John’s, N.L., woman was found dead and Ibrahim Alahmad was charged with her murder.