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The head of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust said it is “a really sad fact” that the charity is having to do the same work for women’s safety 40 years on from her disappearance, as she called for stalking to be taken more seriously.

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00:01I think in regards to the 40th anniversary it's it's something that is actually a really sad fact
00:08that 40 years on from Susie's disappearance we are still having to do the work that we do around
00:13campaigning and supporting victims and ideally I think we'd all have hoped that by now perhaps
00:19some of these issues might have gone away but for us the the kind of the cause is still very
00:25much
00:25there and so in regards to obviously the main things we do are we provide support to victims
00:32of stalking both through our national helpline advocacy service and then we have a number of
00:38more localized stalking services including advocates in the stalking threat assessment center
00:43and we are seeing still continuing increases in the number of victims of stalking that require
00:50our support and then we have broader campaigns around things like public sexual harassment which
00:57obviously we have successfully campaigned to bring that into making it a crime this year or an
01:02aggravated offence but also we're still working to ensure that there are national minimum standards
01:07for taxi and private hire vehicles and there's a whole kind of range of issues and we still
01:13one of the core things obviously that Diana and Paul were really keen to embed was this idea of
01:18personal safety as a life skill and so one of the main things we do as a charity is actually
01:23train
01:23and continue to train a lot of workplaces in kind of making sure that their employees are safe which
01:29is obviously one of the key things in regards to Susie's disappearance nobody knew for six hours that
01:34she wasn't where she was supposed to be at work and so that is still something that we very much
01:38look
01:38at now and then obviously in terms of the online harms and the kind of the different ways now that
01:46harm is being done uh caused to sort of women and girls cold case detectives remain haunted by the
01:53unsolved disappearance of Susie Lampleau 40 years on as her case is expected to be mothballed in 12 months
02:01time the 25 year old estate agent left the office of Sturgess and Sons in Fulham just after midday on
02:09the 28th of
02:10July 1986 and never returned no one was ever prosecuted for her disappearance with very limited
02:18clues as to what happened to her despite the discovery of her abandoned car and a mysterious
02:24house viewing penciled in her diary with a someone apparently called Mr Kipper what we see is actually
02:32it's just that the what we sort of refer to as digital digitally enabled stalking is now just a new
02:38behavior amongst the kind of stalking behaviors it's very rare for us to see a case where it's entirely
02:43kind of in the real world what we do see is that it's but it's often exacerbated by online and
02:49can
02:49often start online but then move into being sort of more what you would probably consider more your
02:55traditional things like following or turning up at someone's house that sort of thing
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