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The Death of Fiona and Francecca Pilkington was a case of murder–suicide which occurred in October 2007 in Barwell, Leicestershire. Fiona killed her self and her daughter, Francecca, after a period of 10 years of abuse by local youths. The pair lived in a house in Barwell with Fiona's Son, Anthony, Fiona had complained to the police, council and her local MP in order to try to stop the abuse against her children and herself.

The Pilkington famly were kept in a "virtual prison" in their home by youths who threw stones, flour and other objects between 1997 and 2007.

The case prompted wider concern that many police forces in the United Kingdom were failing to properly identify hate crimes motivated by disability and thus treating them as low-priority antisocial behaviour, something disability campaigners say too often remains the case.