A review into how the police handled the investigation of the murder of a woman and her child by her violent ex-partner has been called by the family of the victims.
In 2010 Rachel and her son Auden Slack were both stabbed to death in their home by her ex partner and father of Auden. Rachel had before then, repeatedly told police that she feared for her life.
Reported in full in The Guardian, Melony Slack, Rachael’s sister-in-law, said the family were now urging people to support a call for a public inquiry into the state’s handling of domestic violence, led by the domestic violence charity Refuge. Giving comment Melony said “Our family’s great comfort is we may be able to help others,”… “But the phrase ‘lessons have been learnt’ is no consolation unless you see the effects of those lessons. The numbers of women being killed have not gone down and Jean, Rachael’s mother, says she wants no one else to have to go through what she has been through.”
Sandra Horley, the chief executive of Refuge, said;
- A comprehensive and national review into domestic violence was necessary
- Two women are killed by a current and former partner every week
- One in four women will experience domestic violence in their lifetime
“Those figures have not changed for 10 years,” she commented. “We have had endless reviews into individual tragedies but to really find out what is going wrong we need a national response to a national problem.”
I will be very interested to see what comes from these calls. Domestic violence is an intolerable criminal act and it should be that everybody feels safe in the knowledge that the policing and laws surrounding it, will protect them.
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