Hanged teen failed by the police

A teenager who was hanged by a man obsessed with asphyxiating girls, was failed by the police and social services

Jamie Reynolds tried to strangle a girl in 2008 and went on to hang 17 year old Georgia Williams in 2013.

A number of agencies have jointly admitted a series of failures.

Her parents said: "If people had just done their jobs properly our daughter would still be alive."

Georgia’s parents said: "Having lost Georgia to pure evil, we cried when we read this report and the failings of all the agencies involved, because it was so obvious that Reynolds was, if not one already, a murderer in the making. Georgia’s death could’ve been prevented”.

Reynolds was jailed in december 2013, after admitting that he killed Georgia.

Chief Constable David Shaw, said: "We could have and should have done better. We let Georgia down."

 The Justice Liaison Service told Reynolds stepfather to tell the police about the pornography and drawings of his next victims, but the force did not act on them.Instead, Reynolds was given a final written warning by police.