Northland mum Karen Edwards held a photo of her dead daughter Ashlee as she climbed the steps of Parliament to present a petition calling for the three-strikes legislation to apply to breaches of protection orders.
Yesterday Ms Edwards, from Okaihau, accompanied by another mother Ann Hodgetts - whose daughter was killed by domestic violence - presented the petition, signed by 2016 people, to Parliament.
Ms Edwards' daughter Ashlee, 21, mother of two girls, was found dead beside a Whangarei river on July 2012.
Two months before her death, Ashlee made two complaints to police that former partner Jimmy Akuhata had breached a protection order by sending text and voice messages. Akuhata has been charged with her murder, but is under assessment to see whether he is fit to plead.
Handing over the petition to National MP Chris Tremain was a huge relief for Ms Edwards, who said she had "lived the petition for the last six months" and was on her first visit to Parliament.