Pc Jill Lee-Liggett, from Derbyshire Police, recalled the lead-up to the killing of the 23-year-old and the effect it had on her at the inquest into her death at Chesterfield Coroner's Court today,
A police officer who was handed a bag of weapons a month before Gracie Spinks was stabbed to death was 'not concerned' they could be linked to crime and instead thought they were theatre props, an inquest has heard.
After Ms White took the bag home and called the police about the discovery, Pc Lee-Liggett attended her address with her colleague Pc Ashley Downing at about 7pm that day. Michael Sellers, 35, allegedly stabbed the model to death near her horses' stables in Duckmanton, Derbyshire, on June 18 last year, after stalking her for several months
READ MORE: Gracie Spinks inquest: Police officer who closed stalking probe into obsessed ex-colleague who 'stabbed model to death in murder-suicide' admits 'errors' were made Advertisement When asked by coroner Matthew Kewley if she considered the risk that the bag and its contents could have posed as a threat to the community, Pc Lee-Liggett said: 'I did consider if they could be used as weapons or had been used as weapons, but the offences had not been made out, so I...
'I could go to the Marks and Spencer's branch and ask to see CCTV. I raised it with the sergeant and he said"Jill, why would you?" Wiping tears, she said: 'The way I investigate crimes is so different now because of this. Because of this I am completely risk-averse. Gracie had reported Sellers - her former supervisor at work - to police for stalking her four months before her body was discovered.
'They traced it back to that house after her death. It should have been traced back to that household back on May 6 ,' she said.
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