A review by the independent office of police complaints IOPC is taking place to see if police could have done more to protect murdered mother of two Laura Stuart in the days and weeks before the stabbing.

It will look at the police response to her complaints about her former partner Jason Cooper bombarding her with messages and previous complaints she had made.

She told friends that police had said there was nothing they could do.

The murder trial jury at Mold was told that while she had been to Denbigh police station just two days before she was stabbed in the town centre, that she had not wanted to make a formal complaint.

She hoped that if police had a word with him then he would stop but apparently nothing had been done.

In court the jury heard that she was adamant that she would not go to court and she feared it would make matters worse.

She told an officer about the sheer volume of messages she had received from him but did not want to hand over her phone at that stage because her contacts were on it and she wanted her phone for work.

Laura hoped that if the police spoke then he would stop, said police officer Helen Hobson, who worked at Denbigh police station at the time.

The officer, now retired, told how on the Tuesday before the alleged stabbing incident at the weekend an appointment had been made for Laura to attend but she did not turn up.

They met on August 9 to make a complaint of harassment.

Laura had explained the problems she was having, said that the messages were of a psychological and emotional nature, and how he had threatened to distribute pictures of her which had been taken during their relationship.

A statement was taken as she went through what had taken place but she did not want to go to court.

Helen Hobson said that she did not see the messages on Laura’s phone because of the lack of phone signal at the police station.

Laura said Cooper had followed her and her family around Denbigh as they celebrated her sister’s Record of Achievement.

She had alleged that he was being visibly aggressive and had threatened to lock her out if she was not home by 9 p.m.

Helen Hobson said that a PIN notice system was rarely used in domestic violence cases and apart from Laura agreeing to go to court over the complaints she made, then there was little that could be done.

The officer said she spent about an hour and half with Laura and she appeared clam.

She did not give any indication that she was frightened at that stage and just wanted the sheer volume of messages to stop.

They had discussed the options available and when the officer was asked if she wanted to go to court, she replied “absolutely not.”

The officer said she asked Laura to send her any messages in the meantime and asked her to consider making a formal complaint and to go to court. From previous experience that was the only way to address the issue, she said.

Laura left the police station and she had no further contact with her after that .