‘Changes have to be made’ says Gracie Spinks’ parents

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The parents of murdered 23-year-old Gracie Spinks have called Derbyshire Police “disgraceful” after the force admitted a number of failings. Alison Ward – Gracie’s mother – says after encouraging her daughter to report her stalker to the police “because it was the right thing to do” the constabulary “didn’t do any investigating whatsoever”.    Report by Rowlandi. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 We encouraged Gracie to ring 101 that day and report Michael Sellers to the police because

00:05 we felt that was the right thing to do and they didn't do any investigating whatsoever.

00:10 It's disgraceful. Inaction, not following procedures. They just wanted to get it over

00:16 to the police station, get rid of it and go home. Changes have got to be made and that's

00:21 what we want to do next. I feel like Gracie's pushing me along all the time from somewhere

00:25 saying, "Doc, do this. Make a difference." We don't want Gracie's death to have been

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