Alice Ruggles, 24, was subjected to months of harassment by Trimaan Dhillon, 26, a soldier, before he cut her throat, the murder trial at Newcastle crown court was told. In the days leading up to her death, Ruggles told friends that she felt “palmed off” by police after contacting them when Dhillon sent her a package on 7 October 2016 containing a pleading letter and photographs of them. Ruggles told her flatmate, who later discovered her body, that the response to her from Northumbria police had been “a waste of time”.. Ruggles left Dhillon after she discovered he had been cheating with a number of women he had met via the Tinder dating app. She climbed a perimeter wall and hauled herself through a window to find Ruggles’ body on the floor.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2017 16:03 UTC