Family ‘saddened’ by minister’s response to London coroner’s concerns over police database access
Georgia’s story: how a domestic abuse victim’s suicide was ruled an unlawful killing by her partner
The family of a woman judged to have been unlawfully killed by her partner after she took her own life following years of domestic abuse has said “lessons have still not been learnt” after the government indicated it would not make changes to how officers use the police national database.
An inquest earlier this year found that Georgia Barter, 32, experienced years of abuse at the hands of Thomas Bignell.
The inquest, in Walthamstow, London, heard that even though Bignell was known to at least four police forces, officers were not always able to access information about previous reports or arrests on the police national database (PND) when they were called out to attend to incidents involving Barter.
