Overview
- Home Office named leading barrister Richard Wright KC to head the review and published its terms of reference.
- The inquiry was triggered by a super-complaint from the Suzy Lamplugh Trust on behalf of the National Stalking Consortium alleging routine police failures.
- It will test whether current statutes, including those covering online and technology-enabled behaviours, are sufficient and how stalking and harassment laws align.
- Alice Ruggles’s parents welcomed the step; Wright prosecuted her killer, Trimaan Dhillon, who received life with a 22-year minimum term.
- Ministers set a March 2026 deadline as part of a wider plan to halve violence against women and girls, citing 1.4 million adults experiencing stalking last year.