She obtained a restraining order, changed her phone number and moved three times in six months. She once found an Apple AirTag in her car so she asked police to search the vehicle for other trackers.
Forster, 39, was shot and killed outside her Coquitlam home on Dec. 8, and while the police investigation is ongoing, her estranged husband, who died days later, was the main suspect.
MacDougall said Forster’s experience of violence leading to her death is a case study in all of the ways that abusive partners can be lethal, but it also highlights the limitations of law enforcement. “This is somebody who knew what she was supposed to do, and she did every single thing and they still failed her. To me, that really paints a picture of how profoundly the system is broken.”“She didn’t give any one person the full story because she was so embarrassed,” Forster explained.
While many respect protection orders, those who are the most abusive tend to violate them, MacDougall said. It found criminal harassment was 10 per cent higher in 2021 than in the two years before, while indecent and harassing communications increased by 29 per cent since 2019.
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