Calling for an end to the “culture of inaction” on violence against women and girls.

A discretionary serious case review (DSCR) has found that murdered teenager Georgia Williams was failed by the police and by social services.

Her killer, Jamie Reynolds, was known to police and had tried to strangle a girl in 2008, before he hanged 17 year-old Georgia in Telford in 2013.

Speaking about the DSCR, Lynnette and Steve Williams, Georgia’s parents, said: “We appreciate West Mercia Police initiating this report having recognised that the 2008 investigation was inadequate to say the least.