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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Al-Othman

Campaigners urge CPS to reconsider charges against partner of woman who died by suicide

Georgia Barter
Georgia Barter had been assaulted by her long-term partner, said assistant coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe. Photograph: The family of Georgia Barter

Domestic abuse charities and campaigners have urged police and prosecutors to reconsider criminal charges against a man who was found by a coroner to have driven his partner to suicide after an alleged decade of physical and mental abuse.

At an inquest into the death of 32-year-old Georgia Barter in Walthamstow, east London earlier this month, assistant coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe recorded a verdict of unlawful killing.

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