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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

Lessons not learned after Georgia Barter driven to suicide by abuse, says her mother

Georgia Barter.
Georgia Barter took her own life in 2020 after experiencing years of violence and coercive control by her partner. Photograph: The family of Georgia Barter

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.

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