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Police missed chance to protect woman killed by partner

Police missed opportunities to hold an abusive man to account in the months before he violently bashed his partner and left her for dead, a coroner has found. Robert Rickerby fatally assaulted Jessica Geddes, 27, on November 6, 2020, after years of physically, emotionally and…

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