Judgment highlights 'litany of failures' in investigating model's death
While judge Roz Mawar Rozain said her court's findings serve to identify specific institutional failures that require correction and should not be interpreted as criticism of the police force generally, it also listed a 'litany of failures' in the police's handling of the case.
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