Anti-violence organizations are heartbroken and outraged at the killing of Stephanie Forster: Forster had a protection order and Gianluigi Derossi killed her
On December 15, BWSS, Surrey Women’s Centre, and Tri-Cities Transition Society held rallies to draw attention to Forster’s murder. One was in front of the Coquitlam RCMP detachment, and the second was at the intersection of 100th Avenue and 152nd Street in Surrey.
At both locations, a banner reading, “She had a protection order; He killed her anyway” was hung.
Click the video to see advocates rally in Coquitlam and Surrey.
Forster had a protection order against Derossi at the time of her death, ordering him not to communicate with Forster, and not to visit her residence, workplace or school as a result. He was charged with breaching his conditions on October 2.
Many survivors of domestic violence have to fight to get a protection order and on top of that also have to fight to have the protection order enforced.
Click to watch the video above of frontline workers sharing their experiences with protection orders.
Derossi has a long history of predatory actions, in some cases where he was charged and convicted and in others where charges weren’t made.
He was a fraudster who established fake relationships to steal thousands of dollars from his targets. He frauded Allison Flannagan for an estimated $200,000. And despite police recommending charges in her case, Crown declined to approve them.
“Had those charges (in Allison Flannagan’s case) been approved by Crown and gone through, I suspect he would still be in jail today and we could have prevented what happened to Stephanie,” Flannagan said.
We’re continuing to unpack all the elements of this case, learning more about what happened to Stephanie Forster, Allison Flanaggan, and others to identify where the criminal system failed.
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Dec. 19/22
I just let a “male friend” contact me on Facebook because I was scared and lonely. I am awaiting relocation with bwss. I thought I was safe inside but let a fraudster into my life via internet. I took measures last night to block him because he showed me his father’s butcher’s knife he kept under his pillow and then started talking about intimate matters. He had been fun and charming but when I said no, he became verbally abusive and I realized that I had made a mistake. He said he lived in Australia and would never hurt me. I was too lonely to hear the red flags until last night.
Then I saw this email this morning and realized what he was up to with flattery and information gathering on me.
My friend lost her mother & her cousin was severely wounded because of lack of enforcement of a domestic violence case in 2009.
Ontario’s police training changed due to her case.
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2018/12/23/a-decade-after-her-mother-s-murder-gonca-aydin-wants-hamilton-to-remember.html
The Guy was put in jail for fraud , but not for harassment!! He was given protection order !!
A protection order without key chain on his ankle means nothing, even though with ankle chain his devil mind would do what he wanted to , but it could have prevented it too.