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Georgia's family will keep up calls for change at West Mercia Police

The mother of murdered Shropshire teenager Georgia Williams says the family will keep the pressure on police to ensure their failings are not repeated.

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Stephen and Lynnette Williams. Inset: Their daughter Georgia.

Lynnette Williams has also reiterated a call from her and husband Steve for a report carried out by the Devon and Cornwall Police Force into West Mercia's handling of their daughter's killer to be made public.

Mrs Williams said it is vital that both West Mercia Police and social services follow through on pledges for a change of mindset.

She said: "We are still pushing for the Devon and Cornwall report to be released. That one shows even more of the failings but then it is just a case of ensuring that we are on West Mercia's back, the social services' back, in that they are saying what they were going to do and everyone is going to have a mindset change because this is a big thing within all these organisations, getting the mindset changed to do a job correctly and going to do it properly every day."

A serious case review published last week revealed that Jamie Reynolds had been known to police and other agencies for more than five years before he killed Georgia.

Reynolds was jailed in December 2013 after admitting murdering Georgia in Wellington in May 2013.

Following an attack on a 16-year-old girl in 2008, Reynolds had regular contact with the West Mercia Youth Offender Service, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service and the NSPCC.

He was found to have defaced images of girls he knew.

Mental health workers described him as a "significant risk" but his case was closed in 2010.

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