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Teenager was fined for reporting stalker to police five times before he murdered her

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A teenager was murdered by her stalker after she reported him to the police five times in a tragic case described as 'avoidable'. Instead of helping 19-year-old Shana Grice, Sussex Police fined her £90 for ‘wasting police time’ on one occasion. Shana, a receptionist from Brighton, had begged police to take action against Michael Lane five times over a period of six months in 2016. But her pleas were ignored, despite him breaking into her home, and he went on to slit her throat before trying to burn her body in August 2016.

In March that year she was fined £90 by Sussex Police for wasting their time because she did not tell officers they had been in a relationship after she reported Lane for pulling her hair and grabbing her phone. When Lane first broke into Shana's home he was given a police caution. Six weeks later he broke into her home again, walked into her bedroom and murdered her after learning she was in a new relationship.

In March 2017, Lane, then 27, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years Shana's murder. Tom Milsom from the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), says Sussex Police didn't understand "the difference between a spat between two individuals and harassing behaviour" so Shana was "failed".

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