Nuneaton mum launches petition to change law after daughter’s suicide

When a police car pulled up outside Sharon Baker’s home one Sunday morning she “instantly knew” something had happened to her daughter.

As she watched the officers coming down the drive, her sense of dread grew bigger.

“They told me that she she passed away. She took her own life,” she remembered. “My world crashed.”

Carris Taylor had been groomed and sexually abused for two years by Oliver Beck, who she met when she was 14.

Her mother kept pushing for him to be arrested and finally, two years after they met, he was jailed for four years.

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But then her daughter read inaccurate information online, saying that her abuser was being released early from prison.

This is one of the reasons Baker believed contributed to her daughter ending her life in April.

Now she wants to change the law, to see sexual abusers held responsible if their victims take their own lives.

“I need to focus on this because if I don’t, I’ve got nothing left, not of her,” Baker said.

“I’ve got a beautiful family, beautiful friends, so much support, but I haven’t got her.”