The family of a 36-year-old mother who was strangled to death by her ex-partner have received a police apology stating the events leading up to her murder were “unconscionable and regrettable”.
On the night she died Kerry Power, a primary school assistant, dialled 999 as she had been told to do so by an officer who she had previously spoken to over concerns she was being stalked.
She believed that if she called the emergency number and remained silent help would still arrive, but the advice she’d been given proved to be tragically incorrect.
Devon and Cornwall Police’s temporary Chief Constable, Jim Colwell, has now written to Ms Power’s family to apologise.
Ms Power’s family, who were represented by Iftikhar Manzoor of Hudgell Solicitors’ Civil Liberties Team, launched a civil for a breach of operational duties under the Human Rights Act and the force has agreed to an out of court damages settlement.
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