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Evening Standard
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Ellie Ng

Mother of woman killed by boyfriend ‘absolutely betrayed’ by justice system

Linda Westcarr held a sunflower as she spoke of the family’s devastation following the sentencing of her daughter’s boyfriend for manslaughter (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

The mother of a woman killed by her boyfriend has said she feels “absolutely betrayed” by the justice system after he was handed a hospital order for manslaughter.

Gogoa Lois Tape, 28, was detained under the Mental Health Act on Monday for strangling 25-year-old Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche in Hackney, east London, in April last year and driving her body around before confessing to his brother hours later that he had killed her.

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