Survivor and partner felt ‘sidelined’ and ‘in the dark’published at 11:52 GMT<\/p>\n
11:52 GMT<\/p>\n
In statements, Sharon and Martin said they were “kept in the dark” about the criminal process. <\/p>\n
They said they had no contact with the prosecution counsel, or the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) before Valdo Calocane’s sentencing in 2024.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t get to speak to anybody in person, apart from that FLO [family liaison officer],” Sharon said. <\/p>\n
She added she felt like she was “let down”. <\/p>\n
Rachel Langdale KC, counsel to the inquiry, said: “Did you feel you were sidelined?” <\/p>\n
“A hundred per cent yes,” Sharon said. <\/p>\n
The inquiry heard Sharon was described by police as “walking wounded”. <\/p>\n
Martin said it made him feel like Sharon was “less important” and “didn’t matter”. <\/p>\n
The inquiry was also told nobody had explained the court proceedings to Sharon or Martin, and they were not given the option to watch the hearing remotely. <\/p>\n
“There was no communication with anyone,” Martin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survivor and partner felt ‘sidelined’ and ‘in the dark’published at 11:52 GMT 11:52 GMT In statements, Sharon and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-496430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}