A chief constable has admitted his force ‘should have done better’ after a coroner criticised officers’ failure to protect a mother-of-three who was murdered and hidden in a suitcase by her coercive partner.
Matthew Waddell was jailed for life with a minimum 32-year term in 2023 for killing Sarah Albone, 38, at her home in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.
After launching a ‘frenzied and horrific attack’ on her, he stuffed her body in the suitcase and put it in a wheelie bin, while sending messages from her phone to friends and family to conceal what he had done.
The ‘toxic’ relationship began in 2020 and
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