Gracie Spinks, 23, was stabbed to death by a colleague she reported for stalking | UK News

Gracie Spinks was ‘unlawfully killed’ by a former colleague she had previously reported for stalking, an inquest jury has unanimously concluded.

Ms Spinks, 23, was fatally stabbed by 35-year-old Michael Sellers as she tended to her horse at Blue Lodge Farm in Duckmanton, Derbyshire, on June 18 2021. Sellers was later found dead a short distance away.

The 10 members of the jury – who wore pink and purple wristbands in Ms Spinks’ memory – concluded that she was unlawfully killed by Sellers, whom she had reported to police over stalking concerns several months earlier.

Multiple failings already admitted by Derbyshire Police were referred to in the record of inquest filled in by the jurors, but they had been prevented by a coroner from deciding whether the failings had contributed to Ms Spinks’ death.

Referring to Sellers as ‘the supervisor’, their conclusion at Chesterfield Coroner’s Court, the foreman said: ‘It was the supervisor that killed Gracie.’

The medical cause of death was given as a stab wound to the neck.

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