Georgia Murder: Mum Blames Police For 'Bad Job'

The mother of a teenage girl murdered by a man who had been known to police years before he went on to kill has told Sky News there has been "no justice" over her death.

Lynette Williams made the comments as the officers accused of bungling an investigation into Georgia Williams' killer were told they could keep their jobs.

"Justice would have been people holding their hands up and actually acknowledging that they did a bad job," she said.

Jamie Reynolds is serving a whole-life sentence after luring Georgia into his home in Wellington, Shropshire, in 2013, supposedly for a photoshoot.

He then killed the 17-year-old in a meticulously planned trap, hanging her from a length of rope attached to the hatch of his loft.

It later emerged Reynolds had come to the attention of police five years earlier when he trapped a 16-year-old girl at his home and grabbed her around the throat in a "bizarre, potentially serious and unprovoked attack".

He was let off with a written warning and offered counselling.

West Mercia Police said mistakes were made but "there was no identifiable causal link" between any of those failings and Georgia's death five years later.

Publishing the results of misconduct proceedings, it found errors made by officers involved in the 2008 investigation did not amount to gross misconduct.

The force said one officer and a member of police staff have been given a written warning, while two other officers will receive management advice.

A fourth was found to have no case to answer.

Mrs Williams has condemned the findings of the report, saying the threat posed by her daughter's killer was clear.

"I hold them (the police) responsible," she told Sky News.

"If they had done their jobs properly, if they had followed procedures correctly, if they had gone on their gut instincts then Jamie Reynolds will have been recognised for what he was."

She added: "Everything was there in black and white. There were red flags waving everywhere.

"Their actions or inactions in 2008 have led to our daughter’s death."

A serious case review published in October found that Georgia's case could have been prevented and that Reynolds was "a murderer in the making".

A doctor who assessed him in the wake of the 2008 attack reported that he was a significant risk to others, "on the basis that he seemed to have progressed from viewing sexually violent pornography to acting upon it".

Weeks later, images of schoolgirls with nooses drawn around their necks were found in his bedroom and handed to police by his family.

One of those girls, Jadine Dunning, told Sky News police only alerted her to the existence of those images after Georgia went missing.

She said that had "put my life at risk, put the public's life at risk and ultimately Georgia's life at risk because I truly believe that if they had have done something, if they had have picked up on all the warning signs that were already there she could still be with us today".

Georgia's parents called on West Mercia Police to publish another report which they said highlighted mistakes "10 times worse" than those flagged in the serious case review.

The independent report prepared by Devon and Cornwall Police and given to the West Mercia force in March led directly to the misconduct hearings.

Mrs Williams paid tribute to her daughter once again, describing her as "the most vibrant young lady you would ever wish to meet" and someone who was "really happy" and "would do anything for anyone else".