Police refuse to release CCTV of man seen with 'spiked' woman who plunged to her death from car park on night out because of his 'human rights'
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Police have refused to release CCTV of a man with a 'spiked' woman who plunged to her death from a car park during a night out because it would breach his 'human rights'. Jamie Smith, 23, died after falling from a first floor car park in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on the eve of her daughter's fourth birthday.
![[Julie Stephenson has been fighting for the truth about her daughter's death. She blasted police for refusing to release CCTV of a man who her daughter spent her final hours with]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/10/86789085-14197101-Julie_Stephenson_has_been_fighting_for_the_truth_about_her_daugh-a-3_1734345691836.jpg)
Her grieving mother, Julie Stephenson, has appealed to detectives to release footage of a 'stranger' she was seen kissing on CCTV, but was never identified. Ms Stephenson claims her daughter was 'spiked' at a strip club before she died. At the mother-of-one's inquest, it was heard that ampshire Constabulary could not release his image to the public because it was 'against his human rights'.
![[Detective Sergeant Matthew Egginton (pictured) said police could not find the man she was with.]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/10/93189819-14197101-image-m-5_1734345733563.jpg)
Ms Stephenson - who attended the inquest in Portsmouth - told the hearing officers did not 'try hard enough' to find the man. 'Beautiful' Ms Smith fell to her death in the early hours of November 23 last year, with CCTV showing she was alone. She had been out to visit a Christmas market but ended up meeting the man, who she went to a strip club with and was seen kissing.
![[Mum-of-one Jamie Smith, 23, fell to her death from a multi-storey car park last year]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/10/86789055-14197101-Mum_of_one_Jamie_Smith_23_fell_to_her_death_from_a_multi_storey_-a-6_1734345834763.jpg)
Jamie Smith, 23, plunged to her death from the first floor of a multi-storey car park on the eve of her daughter's fourth birthday. Julie Stephenson has been fighting for the truth about her daughter's death. She blasted police for refusing to release CCTV of a man who her daughter spent her final hours with.
![[In the hours before her death, she had spent time with an unknown man at the Wiggle strip club in Portsmouth]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/16/10/93189809-14197101-image-m-11_1734345895786.jpg)
