stalking
She left a note saying she had “run out of fight” following six months of threats from her ex.
Shana Grice was 18 when she met 26-year-old mechanic Michael Lane. The office receptionist dated Lane for a few months, before ending the relationship in December 2015. Lane didn’t take the break-up well. Over the next eight months Lane followed and harassed Shana, before ultimately taking her life in August 2016. Despite pleas to Sussex Police, Shana’s accusations of stalking were largely ignored.
An investigation has found a series of failings by police in the months before Michael Lane terrorised the 19-year-old to her death.
Stalking is not legally defined in the Protection from Harassment Act, but a series of behaviours are listed as guidance, such as following a person, persistently contacting them or spying on them. It only takes two instances of this behaviour to qualify as an offence under the act.
A stalker like Joe does not just wake up one day and start behaving like this – it is a pattern of behaviour that continues if it gets them what they want
Police must focus firmly on the perpetrator – call me radical and old fashioned, but they are the ones committing the crime
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The centre will investigate high-risk stalking allegations and provide victims with psychological support.
One in five women and one in ten men have experienced stalking since the age of 16