Her death led to landmark ruling that sustained domestic violence can make an abuser criminally responsible for their victim’s suicide
On the night of 27 July 2023, Kimberly Milne jumped to her death from a road bridge.
Her suicide came after months of mental health crises, compounded by a campaign of domestic abuse at the hands of her former partner. In this regard, to the officers who attended the scene, Kimberly’s was a depressingly familiar story.
What those officers could not have known is that the tragedy that unfolded on that summer evening would take on a unique significance, culminating in a prosecution that, almost three years later, would make British legal history.
Kimberly’s estranged husband, Lee Milne, 40, was interviewed at a police station less than a mile from the scene shortly afterwards. It emerged that, in the minutes before she took her own life, he had followed Kimberly, 28, on to the bridge.
