Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped

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It is truly heartbreaking to think about what she went through and what her family must have endured. had involvement in the case, at no time did all those agencies meet together and there was no clear and co-ordinated approach to multi-agency working. Georgia Williams was 17 when she was murdered by friend Jamie Reynolds who then took photographs of himself sexualy assaulting her as part as a sick fantasy.

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The book provides an in-depth look into Georgia's life before her tragic death and the events that led up to her murder. They have not faltered in their fight to try and change the future of policing, for future families that become victims of crime. It emerged officers were given evidence of his obsession with images of women being hanged – but let him off with a warning. When a high profile murder case hits the headlines, we of course feel for the family but this book exposes in great detail the truly horrific aftermath. The memoir reveals how Lynnette and Steve used human rights laws to back the force into admitting it failed their daughter.

The authors do an excellent job of portraying Georgia as a real person with hopes, dreams, and a bright future ahead of her.

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Two years later when he rammed a colleague’s car after she spurned his advances, police wrote it up as a traffic accident.I've never read a book like this before - a brutal crime and its consequences told by the mother of a victim. I even imagined him maybe getting married and starting a family of his own – it was torture he’d deprived Georgia of all those milestones.

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it is horrible that so many mistakes were made and these organisations just didn’t communicate with each other. I’d been having nightmares about these woods, imagining them as dark and scary, and crawling with insects. At the time of his sentencing, Stafford Crown Court was told Georgia knew Reynolds but had "made it clear she had no romantic interest in him" and only agreed to go to his house to be a model for his amateur photography. This was a case that took over the British headlines at the time due to its detail and severity and the fact that even when your father is a high-ranking member of the police force, and you are murdered, his employers are not immune or averse to lying to you, either.Detailing the run-up to the crime as well as the crime itself and its devastating aftermath not only for Williams's family but also that inflicted on the wider community of Wellington as a whole, it rapidly becomes a visceral and truly emotive read throughout. I appreciated the authors insights into what she was feeling, how her family was handling things, etc. Reynolds got a whole-life sentence, meaning he will die behind bars, with the judge remarking he was a “serial killer in the making”. We miss the sound of her slightly out of tune voice coming from her bedroom and the sunshine she bought into our lives. I think after reading this book that Renolds was a chillingly disturb young man whom I think nothing, or nobody could get through to.

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But when Georgia’s devastated mother, Lynnette, and father, Steve, questioned the events leading to their daughter’s death, they discovered it was also entirely preventable.

One would expect that the family could move on after the court case but the circumstances surrounding Georgia’s murder meant the family have had the worst possible time as they tried to get the truth exposed. You can read this before Social and Private Life at Rome in the Time of Plautus and Terence PDF full Download at the bottom.