Online pornography depicting women being choked is to be banned, following a review that found such images are rife and have helped establish the act as a sexual norm.

The government confirmed the possession and publication of images showing strangulation and suffocation will be criminalised, as part of a crackdown on violent pornography.

While non-fatal strangulation is already an offence, its online depiction is not currently illegal.

This legislative action follows Conservative peer Baroness Bertin’s warning earlier this year of a "total absence of government scrutiny" in the pornography industry.

Her independent review, published in February, cited worrying anecdotal evidence from teachers about students asking how to choke girls during sex.

Baroness Bertin cautioned that

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