Humberside Police has settled legal cases with the loved ones of a woman who died of hypothermia in a Hull cemetery after PCSOs searched for less than 10 minutes and didn’t even step foot outside of their car to look for her.
The force was called to provide assistance to 56-year-old Jacqueline Parsons by a passer-by in October 2018 after he’d found her injured in Hull’s Western Cemetery, having fallen from her bike.
Miss Parsons’ siblings and her partner pursued a claim against Humberside Police through Hudgell Solicitors alleging that failures had amounted to a breach of the force’s duty of care to protect the right to life.
Adam Biglin, of the Civil Liberties department at Hudgell Solicitors, led the legal cases and said: “This was a wholly inadequate search in terms of both approach and attitude. I think if anyone was to have a loved one go missing at any stage they’d believe a search of this nature to be insulting.
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