My name is Savannah and my mother, Fiona Holm, was murdered in 2023.

I believe her death was preventable and the police must be held accountable for the failures that led not only to her death, but also to the death of another woman, Naomi Hunte.

Please sign this petition to call for accountability and for real change so that this never happens to another family.

We deserve so much better.

Naomi Hunte and my mother, Fiona Holm, were killed by the same violent partner, Carl Cooper, within 16 months of each other. Both were from African Caribbean backgrounds, and both had mental health conditions which made them very vulnerable.

On both occasions, the police knew of the risks to their lives but did not take any effective action, and both times the result was the woman’s death. 

In the case of my mum, she started a relationship with Cooper in 2022 while he was still on bail for Naomi’s murder.

On 8 April 2023, my mother called the police alleging that Carl Cooper had hit her with a crow bar. When she spoke to the police, she alleged that he had previously stabbed her with a screwdriver.  However, after Cooper was interviewed, and despite the police knowing Cooper’s background and that he was under investigation at the time for Naomi’s murder, the police closed the case without further investigation.

My mum was last seen on 20 June 2023.  We repeatedly called the police from the end of June, but police did not arrest Cooper until 11 July 2023 giving him the opportunity to dispose of my mother’s body.  By the time Cooper’s home was searched he had stripped his home and burnt key evidence.  

My mother’s body has still not been found.

Please join me in order to:

1. Call on the police to renew their search for Fiona Holm’s body with regular updates to the family, and call for witnesses to come forward with any information that can help to locate her body.
2. Call on the government to work with us to introduce effective measures to fulfil the state’s obligations to protect, prevent and prosecute domestic abuse cases and deliver real police accountability. We seek: 

• a radical overhaul of the current system of policing domestic abuse and domestic abuse-related homicides;
• a recognition of the obstacles faced by disabled and minoritised women in engaging with the criminal justice system and accountability when the police fail to take reasonable steps to support women in accordance with their own guidance;
• the implementation of robust disciplinary measures where there are clear failures in the investigation of domestic abuse/homicides, including in relation to the effective supervision of those investigations.

This petition is supported by the families of Fiona Holm and Naomi Hunte, and by Project Resist, a grassroots organisation that campaigns for the rights of black and minoritised women. For more information go to https://www.projectresist.org.uk/doubleinjusticecampaign