what i would say is that from my
personal and professional perspective
he had an unhealthy
obsession a fascination in relation to
global serial killers certainly the high
profile individuals
and footage of what are purported to be
post-mortem examination
murder scenes and people in levels of
distress
the fact that he was looking at those
items just prior to the killing
might explain his motivation but this
sole person that can tell us exactly why
he did what he did is ackland himself
slightly withdrawal wouldn't necessarily
betray his emotions
physically or
put himself out there in relation to his
interactions
apart from when he was
just about to go on stage and do a kick
he had no gig in the immediate aftermath
of
bobby ann's killing
and that's one of the things that
surprised
our investigation teams and myself so
much is that why show that level of and
it's been described as joy
in the immediate aftermath
appears no reason for it exceptional
i
don't believe i've experienced somebody
not
committing any sort of precursors but
certainly not
causing a level of concern before acting
out
upon their fascination
for me personally
it's been exceptional
nothing
there's been no apology
no active contrition
no statement that he has made
two investigators that would indicate
that he regrets
the
sadistic manner of bobby anz killing
so this is an extremely rare case um
cody acklin was not known on the police
national computer
and his secret obsession with the
macabre and serial killers was not known
to us or any other agency
as you said his friends and family
they have not seen anything or were
raised to say anything um because this
was so
just not out of character what they
believe my thoughts are so with bobby
anne's family and friends the strength
that those people must be going through
the loss of their daughter and sister
but what's been lovely is the outpouring
that you might have seen at the end of
last year of the community coming
together and i'm so proud of the
plymouth communities pulling together
for the love of bobby ann a girl who
lost her life so cruelly that night so
this is the societal issues we've seen
violence against women girls and as you
said misogyny is just one part of
violence against women and girls there's
rape sexual assault false marriage
domestic abuse stalking
so we're all responsible members of our
community and it's about thinking about
our actions so i think again we've seen
lots of campaigns of where we need to
challenge it and again you know young
men may have sisters may be fathers you
know again
just to think about how we act in this
space and be kind to everyone so yeah
this is a subtle problem you're
absolutely right the police absolutely
have a part to play so
devil and cornwall police are absolutely
committed to tackling identifying and
preventing
violence against women and girls and
especially we will focus on perpetrators
but we can't do this alone so we are
working with partner agencies charities
victim services across the peninsula of
devon cornwall and the isles of city to
listen and respond to concerns we're
working with our criminal justice
partners again to get positive outcomes
for victims working with education to
educate young boys and men through
school and university
so again if anyone's got concerns please
please let us know but more specifically
with plymouth and where obviously bobby
anne lost her life the commission has
been set up for violence against women
commission that will report on the 27th
of may with some recommendations but in
the meantime what is policing doing so
here in devon and cornwall we are using
street safe so again you can type into a
internet engine street safe you can list
where you feel less safe streets and
places you perhaps want to raise we'll
overlay that with our crime and incident
data so we can have dedicated high
visibility patrols at key times and
locations
we've got plainclothes police officers
going into bars and clubs again where
we've had perhaps drink spiking reports
and we've taken up the national
initiative ask for angela so if you're a
woman or girl in a bar or nightclub you
can go up to the bar staff ask for
angela and they can get a cab or call
friends and family so you can feel safe
and get you home
so i'm optimistic in that this is on the
national agenda isn't it so it's being
spoken about so there is focus
but this is a huge societal issue and
again this will take a lot of work in
this space to make it better but we all
have a social responsibility to do so