I heard about this the other day as I live fairly locally but there hadn’t been much detail provided at the time.
A 23 year old woman was found badly injured in a field, paramedics failed to keep her alive. The field was where she kept her horse.
A few hours later the police find a 35 year old mans body in a car nearby. This man is an ex colleague who went on one date with her and became infatuated.
Six weeks previously a pedestrian had found a bag full of knives, an axe, an obscure note saying “don’t lie” as well as items of clothing and a water bottle in the lane near the field where she was found dying. It was handed into the police but nothing was done about it, no DNA test or attempt to identify it’s owner made, apparently.
The police have referred themselves to the IOPC as they disclose having had contact with Gracie in the past year, presumably in relation to this man. Gracie had applied for a restraining order.
I’m so fucking angry for this brilliant, loved woman with her whole life ahead of her who was taken by this awful man who wouldn’t leave her alone. The police had two opportunities to intervene and do something, maybe even three if the restraining order had been sorted.
How do we protect ourselves? The police won’t even pretend to take these things seriously when we ask.
What is the answer to the make sense of entitlement to women? And their violence against us?
Guardian link here;
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/21/police-name-suspected-killer-of-gracie-spinks