Mum of murdered student in 'believe' victims call

The parent of a young pistillate who was killed by her erstwhile fellow has called for a changes successful however home maltreatment victims are treated.

Student Bethany Rae Fields was murdered by Paul Crowther successful Huddersfield successful 2019, adjacent though she had warned the constabulary helium had made threats to her and others successful the period earlier her death.

Bethany's mother, Pauline Jones, has acceptable up a run successful her daughter's representation and said the authorities should enactment quicker to support abused women who are asking for help.

West Yorkshire Police said it had apologised to Bethany's parents for having missed "opportunities" to support her.

Ms Jones said: "My girl was not believed. They didn’t respond and they didn’t bash it accelerated enough."

She said her girl had been intelligent, articulate and a bully communicator.

"If idiosyncratic of my daughter’s calibre could not marque herself believed and listened to, past it’s hard to ideate different women making themselves understood. They request to beryllium taken seriously."

She said the 1 happening victims did not person was time.

"That’s wherefore respond and accelerated is imperative. No-one knows erstwhile that perpetrator is going to onslaught and (when) that unfortunate becomes a fatality."

Crowther was fixed a beingness condemnation successful 2020 for fatally stabbing 21-year-old Bethany.

He admitted manslaughter by diminished work and Leeds Crown Court heard he had not been detained by intelligence wellness services.

This was contempt him telling them helium wanted to onslaught others and instrumentality his ain life.

Ms Jones, from Leeds, said that too the police, Bethany had besides reported concerns to her GP.

"The sharing of accusation would assistance to prevention galore peoples’ lives," she added.

"We unrecorded successful a computerised age. Why hasn’t it been done?"

Ms Jones' run was mentioned astatine Prime Minister's Questions connected Wednesday.

She said she felt Sir Keir Starmer's effect to her lawsuit had been "positive" and that adopting BRF would assistance the government's pledge to halve home unit against women and girls implicit the adjacent 10 years.

The contented was raised successful Parliament by Ms Jones' MP Katie White.

The Labour MP for Leeds North West, said determination needed to beryllium changes successful however home unit was treated by nine and a "cultural shift" to believing victims.

"At the infinitesimal the onus is connected victims to beryllium they’re successful danger," she said.

"That’s not working, clearly, and it didn’t enactment for Bethany, sadly."

West Yorkshire Police said it accepted the findings of a home homicide reappraisal and an autarkic policing probe pursuing Bethany's death.

The unit said the recommendations from those inquiries had been implemented and that its attack to home maltreatment had been "developed and amended" successful "many ways".

"We person met with Bethany’s parents and apologised to them for our failings and the mislaid opportunities to support their daughter," the unit said.

"While we are committed to continual learning, we realise this won’t bring backmost Bethany, who mislaid her beingness successful genuinely horrific circumstances."

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