Police missed opportunities to safeguard man whose lodger killed him and tried to feed his body parts to badgers, investigation finds
The IOPC investigated the police's contact with Mr Snell prior to his murder after the force referred itself to the watchdog in July 2019.
The next day a police constable visited Mr Snell's home in Marsden Street to follow up but there was no answer.The court heard Walsh had previously been jailed for stealing from his uncle and hitting him at his home It then took a further 26 hours to deploy officers, although the incident was graded as a priority following checks revealing Walsh's history.
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