Victoria police failing to take stalking victims seriously, report finds

Celeste Manno was stabbed to death in her bedroom in 2020. The Victorian government commissioned a report on the state’s legal responses to stalking after Manno’s death. Photograph: Celeste Manno/Facebook

Allegations of stalking are often trivialised by Victorian police with victims left to take out intervention orders themselves, according to a report commissioned after the death of Celeste Manno in 2020.

In its interim report on the state’s legal responses to stalking, the Victorian Law Reform Commission called for police to initiate intervention orders on behalf of stalking victims in a bid to improve early responses.