Disabled people 'failed by police'
Disabled people are being failed by the police and left to suffer violence, harassment and abuse, according to a report published today by Mencap.
The charity, which is also launching a three-year campaign against disability hate crime, said there was a "general lack of police understanding" of such crime, and no strategy to tackle it.
In its report, it cites the case of Fiona Pilkington, from Barwell, who killed herself and disabled daughter Francesca Hardwick in 2007, following 10 years of sustained abuse and harassment from yobs.
Read the full article, along with reader comments (and the chance to leave your own) on the Leicester Mercury website: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Disabled-failed-police/story-12802300-detail/story.html
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