Police are reviewing a domestic violence case. Mark Sinclair murdered his on/off partner Kylie Dembrey. Thames Valley Police’s will aim to establish if “there are any areas or lessons to be learned” from this case because despite there being a safety plan in place this has not prevented the murder. Sinclair was sentenced to 21 years in prison after he strangled Kylie Dembrey until she was unconscious and then stabbed her in the neck and heart.
Judge Paul Dugdale who sentenced Sinclair at Reading Court commented that through the couple’s 12-year, on-off relationship, Sinclair had “punched, kicked, manhandled, and spat” at his girlfriend and the murder came “at the end of an extensive history of regular violence… in a domestic context”.
Sinclair’s sentences for his convictions against Ms Dembrey “varied from a community order with a domestic violence programme in 2008, to a prison sentence in 2012”, the court heard.
You can read more about the case here.