Suzy Lamplugh Trust

The UK's leading personal safety charity & we manage the National Stalking Helpline
Charity no: 802567
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[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

Great to join @transportgovuk’s roundtable on taxi & PHV legislative reform ⚖️

National minimum standards must be introduced and developed as soon as possible, in consultation with sector experts, so all passengers receive the same level of protection wherever they travel.

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

📝 King’s College London is inviting adults in England with lived experience of coercive control to join a paid one-day research workshop on wellbeing & support.

Find out more via [email protected] or register your interest here 🔗 https://t.co/qODBcHTd8w

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

@CommissionerDA Read our Fatal Fixation: The Link between Stalking and Homicide report 🔗 https://t.co/fsITqJQq2K

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

Learning from domestic abuse related deaths is essential if we are to prevent future harm. We support @CommissionerDA's call for a stronger oversight mechanism to ensure lessons from DHRs lead to meaningful change.

🔗 https://t.co/53JgCcIXHU

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[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

@CommissionerDA Too often, opportunities to identify escalating stalking risk are missed.

📢 Stronger recognition of stalking within DHRs, alongside better oversight and sustainable funding for these vital reviews, is essential to preventing future harm. [3/4]

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

It's getting warmer, summer is just around the corner and everyone’s getting ready to go out. But we know that too many nights are ruined by harassment.

Make a difference - sign up for our bystander training and help create safer spaces for everyone👉 https://t.co/mFjVe5ikP9

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

Read the Safety by Design Code of Practice here🔗 https://t.co/wr7u4W2k15

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[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

Last week, Ofcom announced it is strengthening its Illegal Content Codes by recommending tech providers to use automated hash matching technology to detect intimate image abuse and reduce its spread online. [1/4]

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

That is why we have supported the Safety by Design Code of Practice, calling for Ministers to adopt this approach to address this cross-cutting issue.

The Code would require platforms to be designed and tested to be safe BEFORE launch, not after harm. [3/4]

[Killed Women @KilledWomennw]

"Our daughter was murdered by a stalker. This is why the law needs to change. Threatened by her ex, Alice Ruggles told police, but little was done and he killed her. Now her parents, Clive Ruggles and Sue Hills, campaign about this neglected crime."
https://t.co/NWusmoXSYv

'Alice had been let down by shortcomings in laws and procedures supposedly designed to deal with stalking – shortcomings that campaigners and academics argue are still leaving women (because it is overwhelmingly women) at the mercy of obsessive stalking that often results in injury, victim suicide or murder.

Research commissioned by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe in the wake of Alice’s death, and conducted by Prof @JMoncktonSmith, a specialist in homicide, stalking and coercive control at the University of Gloucestershire, looked into the murders by men of 358 women over three years – and found that 94 per cent involved stalking.'

“We know stalking can escalate into fatal fixation,” says Emma Lingley-Clark, interim chief executive of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. “Yet across public bodies and agencies it continues to be dangerously underestimated – rather than treated with the urgency it demands.”

'When Alice finally called Northumbria police, they treated her case as harassment and not stalking. There is a vital difference between the two. A case of harassment does not necessarily involve a personal fixation: if a householder pestered their neighbour over the location of a fence, the neighbour might move away, but the dispute would continue with the next resident.

“The problem is that the way it was identified by that first person who answered the telephone really coloured everything that followed,” says Clive. “He identified it as harassment, and that was how it was followed up. It should have been recognised as stalking.”

'After her death, Sue and Clive set up the Alice Ruggles Trust @ACR_Trust to educate young people and professionals, to raise awareness of the dangers of stalking and to promote policies to prevent it. Clive is an emeritus professor in archaeoastronomy, the study of civilisations’ understanding of the cosmos, and Sue is a retired maths teacher. But now, improving awareness of stalking consumes the couple’s lives. They are trying to raise money so that it can continue after they are too old to carry on.'

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

📢 The need to also educate the public has never been more apparent. Join our next free 30-minute bystander training to learn & recognise signs of harassment.

Sign up for one of our sessions in June🔗 https://t.co/8WpmgTZlGw

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[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

🚨 While the introduction of the Protection from Sex-Based Harassment in Public Act is a vital and long-overdue step forward, recent reported incidents of indecent exposure and sexual harassment on trains highlight the ongoing seriousness of this problem. [1/3]

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

Just weeks after the legislation came into force last month, the BTP secured the first conviction under the new law.

This sends a clear message that these behaviours are unacceptable and those who choose to harass & intimidate others will be held accountable. [2/3]

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

Great to be at the @uclcs' Tech Abuse Conference, hearing the Mayor of London speak about building a world where women & girls are safe online and offline: ‘safety by design must be the norm’.

We look forward to working with @MOPACLdn to reduce online harm for stalking victims.

[Mayor's Press Office @LDN_pressoffice]

On the first day of @ucl's international Tech Abuse Conference @MayorofLondon announces £6m fund to spearhead collective action.

Read: https://t.co/A0My2085JS

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

@RiskCrewUK @SWGfL_Official 📍 We are also taking part in the Tech Abuse Conference today, which brings together tech experts, policymakers, victims-survivors, academics, civil society & other stakeholders across 3 days to address the global phenomenon of tech-facilitated abuse against women & girls. [3/3]

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

💫 We are delighted to announce today the recent launch of the pan-London Stalking Support Service.

This service incorporates new elements to take down harmful social media content related to stalking conduct & support victims to collect court-admissible digital evidence. [1/3]

[Suzy Lamplugh Trust @live_life_safe]

👥 Working along with SherlockAI, @RiskCrewUK, Kulpa and @SWGfL_Official, this service combines specialist safeguarding expertise with a safety by design approach to better protect victims in an increasingly digital world.

Read our full PR here 🔗https://t.co/s6XWEgLNX8 [2/3]