Overview
- RAF Sgt Jonathan Haggerty launched the petition after a coroner found in May 2024 that his sister Danielle’s 2023 death was an unintended outcome of self-harm in a volatile relationship.
- The petition has almost 9,000 signatures and is open until June, with a government response triggered at 10,000 and potential consideration for a parliamentary debate at 100,000.
- The proposal would criminalise failing to seek help for someone in immediate danger, drawing on duty-to-rescue models used in other countries.
- Police forced entry to a Tameside flat after a neighbour’s 999 call, and Danielle was resuscitated but later died; an inquest detailed prior volatility and physical abuse in the relationship.
- Greater Manchester Police arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder, but the CPS declined to bring charges and upheld that decision on Victims’ Right to Review in August 2024, while MP Angela Rayner has publicly backed the family’s campaign.