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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Gaby Hinsliff

Starmer was not ‘soft on crime’. But this is politics – and the ruthless Tory machine is just starting up

Illustration by Thomas Pullin

Fiona Ivison was 17 when she was strangled and battered to death by a man who had paid her for sex. He then left her body in a freezing car park.

She was only 14 when she was groomed by an older man into what she thought was a loving relationship, and then became a victim of sexual exploitation. Although the killer was caught, her mother, Irene, felt strongly that things should not end there; she wanted social workers and police held accountable for what she considered their failure to help Fiona, or recognise the relationship was abusive.

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