So you’ve seen the film – now what?

Gaia: a Death on Dancing Ledge airs this week on BBC Three & iPlayer. (Content Warning: contains distressing references to sexual violence, trauma, missing persons, bereavement.)

If like us, you want to help make sure that what happened to Gaia never happens to anyone else, we need you to take action. 

Please visit our linktree or select ‘Act’ from the main menu to support the campaign. We are 100% grassroots & people powered. Over 2,500 people have already taken action and we need everyone.

If you have been affected by or have any further information about the alleged perpetrators featured in the film, the Centre for Women’s Justice is inviting confidential testimony. This is completely private and independent of the police so please consider coming forwards. Together we are strong 🌹

“I hear too often from survivors how police and other criminal justice failures had a worse mental health impact than the crime itself. In Gaia’s case, it cost her life. Her legacy must lead to real change.”

– Harriet Wistrich, director, Centre for Women’s Justice.

“Gaia’s death was preventable. Her inquest exposed over 50 failings in her care. Like thousands of survivors of sexual violence, Gaia was denied the justice and support she desperately needed. Everyone should have access to adequate and effective policing and well resourced specialist support services.”

– Verity Nevitt, Co-founder, The Gemini Project.

“Gaia’s death is part of a broader pattern of deaths of survivors of sexual violence who are being systematically failed by public services. INQUEST has hundreds of cases involving the deaths of young women with experiences of abuse and associated trauma. This injustice cannot continue.”

– Deborah Coles, director, INQUEST.

“At Rape Crisis England & Wales we have supported thousands of women and girls whose experiences have been similar to Gaia’s, who have been failed by the system, denied access to justice and left with their voices unheard. We support the Justice for Gaia campaign as it holds the institutions that should have protected Gaia to account, they can and must do better.”

– Jayne Butler, CEO, Rape Crisis England & Wales.