The not guilty verdict in the trial of a man accused of driving a young mother to suicide will not deter future manslaughter charges, with more such prosecutions already in the pipeline, a senior prosecutor has said.
Ryan Wellings, 30, was acquitted of the manslaughter of 23-year-old Kiena Dawes, who had left a note on her phone saying Wellings “killed me”. While he was jailed for six and a half years for assault and coercive and controlling behaviour, Dawes’s mother said: “Justice has not been done in the way we all hoped.”
