Kristy Porteous
What comes to your mind when you think of a FLO-Family Liasion Officer? 🤔 Tell me in the comments!
reading more of Sandra’s book and I was pretty shocked,as was she,to find out that the role of a FLO(Family Liasion Officer) is to investigate the family they are placed with?! I’d always been under the impression that it was in a supportive role and to help them understand how an investigation works in regards to whatever incident they have experienced, Sandra points out she thought it was also to protect them against media intrusion. I hadn’t thought of that but thought that would definitely come into it...
The fact the FLO gave evidence in court against Luke made me feel some type of way, like that was another way his trust was broken and things twisted by someone else who was meant to have his best interests at heart?! and so were the Jones being ‘investigated’ too? It’d be interesting to know what their FLOs observed!! There’s loads they could have missed!Had they been on the ball there’s a pretty good chance that they could have unravelled this case in the correct way!!Something else to keep in mind is that the FLO should have had a colleague there(to witness what/if anything was done/said) anytime she was alone with the Mitchell’s but the FLO visited Luke,Corinne and Shane alone from the evening of the 1st July so nothing was corroborated but a sketch the FLO asked Luke to draw,of the way jodi would have walked, was allowed to be used in court against Luke even though his defence argued it shouldn’t be. The defence went as far as to call the FLO ‘a vixen in the henhouse’, when DF said to her ‘Luke was being viewed differently from the word go.And with that the police operation was a botch up from the word go.’ And she agreed!!! That just says it all to me!