Shana Grice was 19. She asked Sussex Police for help five times in six months. They fined her.
That is why her mother is standing outside this police station holding Shana’s photograph.
Michael Lane tracked Shana’s car, assaulted her and stole a key to enter her bedroom. Once, she hid under the duvet listening to him breathe.
But because Shana had not initially disclosed their past relationship, an officer gave her a £90 fine for “wasting police time”.
The trial judge later said police had “jumped to conclusions” and stereotyped her. The police watchdog found that the officer’s actions affected Shana’s confidence and may have stopped her reporting Lane’s continued harassment.
On 25 August 2016, Lane entered Shana’s home and murdered her. He was jailed for life with a minimum of 25 years.
One former officer was found to have committed gross misconduct and was barred from policing. Another committed misconduct. Sussex Police apologised and changed its procedures.
Shana went to the people meant to protect her. Their response taught a frightened teenager that asking again could get her punished.
That failure was indefensible.
"How do we cut length of stay?"
More beds. Faster discharges. Both get a hearing.
Screen for delirium: the idea nobody takes seriously.
Delirium adds days to admissions. Prevention IS the business case. #delirium
Read this racket.
257 Ghanaian health and care workers were granted visas last year but despite new govt restrictions brought in 2,131 dependents. 8 per visa.
12 Cameroon workers got visas and brought in 180 family. 15 per visa.
139 Bangladeshis, but 747 family. 6 per visa.
2,395 Indian workers, 10,504 family. 4 per visa.
We are such mugs.
they are drinking water - you don’t know how much of a difference this can make to vulnerable people who may not have local family or carers able to do this 💟💛 it could mean ALL the difference
Enjoy the heatwave to everyone who can 🙂 ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Please check on your elderly and vulnerable neighbours over the next few days - have personally seen how absolutely stretched A&E Brighton is this week (corridors are wards) and so many elderly in there) even if you knock your neighbour’s door for a ‘quick chat’ and make sure
@NormanBrennan When you lose trust in the police what do you think will happen? Not saying i agree with them but the situation is desperate and people have had enough of this complete shit
Taken from Facebook:
Kelly Hatchard
“To me, Henry wasn't a headline or a court case. He was my best friends funny, caring, cheeky son. Henry had a way of making people smile without even trying. He had so much life ahead of him, so many plans, and so much love to give. When Henry was just a baby, Lucy gave me the honour of being his godmother. Our kids, like us shared their childhood. Henry's loved ones were just normal people and we were enjoying watching our kids grow into adults, naively taking for granted that we would see all the wonderful things that life had to offer them.
On December 5th 2025, when the news broke, life as we knew it stopped.
My focus in what I want to say will always be Henry and Henry's family.
But, nothing I could ever say would come close to explaining the pain of losing Henry. But alongside the heartbreak of losing Henry has been the pain of watching one of the kindest families I have ever known have their entire world torn apart.
I was lucky enough to grow up with the family of my best friends Lucy (Henry's Mum) and Katie (Henry's aunty). The family make everyone feel welcome. Their home is filled with kindness, warmth and laughter. No matter what life throws at them they always find a way to bring light to those around them. They are generous with their time, compassionate in their hearts, and the sort of people who make others feel like family too, including me and then my children. Their laughter is infectious, their support unwavering, and their love for one another shines through in everything they do.
My heart is broken for them, a very large part of them died on the day that monster chose to rip Henry from their lives. Yet even through their darkest days they continued to be the wonderful people that they are. Their focus during these dark times was to shine a light on and raise money for the charity that has helped them.
Then, 6 months after Henry's death, the heart ache continued as they had to face the trial. Being subjected to sit in a room with the monster who brutally murdered their son and watch the lies spill so easily from his mouth. A man who has not once showed an an ounce of remorse for what he did. They endured a living nightmare.
Thinking that things could not possibly get worse, in the last few weeks they have learned that the very institution that is there to protect us not only ignored Henry's plea for help, but they sided with the monster who put him on the ground .
Henry's family learned that his last moments were not only spent so afraid of the monster who attacked him but he was then wronged and let down by the police officer who I have no doubt, Henry assumed was there to help him.
That police officer handcuffed Henry and read him his rights. The last thing my best friend's beautiful boy heard before we lost him forever.
This image, we will never ever be able to erase from our minds. Family, friends and now the world, will have seen that image and we all have to live with it forever.
Shame on the monster who took you, shame on the police officer who should have helped you and shame on the organisation that trained the police officer to side with an incorrect racist slur over a dying young man. Shame on you all!!
You treated a loving caring intelligent hardworking young man, with such disregard and disrespect. You treated Henry's family, such good people, with such dishonesty! The lies have been inforgivable !! HOW DARE YOU.
Henry deserved so much more from this life. Henry and his family have been let down so badly.
THIS COULD HAPPEN AGAIN TO ANYONE, ANYONE'S CHILD.
This has to stop now.
Henry we will fight until the end for you. The world will know your name. You changed our lives for the better for being a part of it, I believe you will now go on to change the lives of others by the legacy you will leave.
God bless you my darling 💙”