Laura Richards
Laura Richards BSc, MSc. MBPsS is an award-winning and world-renowned criminal behavioural analyst and advocate who worked for a decade at New Scotland Yard as Head of the Homicide Prevention Unit and Head of the Violent Crime Intelligence and Analysis Unit.
Laura is founder of Paladin, National Stalking Advocacy Service, which she set up following the successful stalking law reform campaign and also spearheaded the Domestic Violence Law Reform campaign, which resulted in the offence of coercive control being introduced in 2015.
Laura is the author of the Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Abuse Risk Model (www.dashriskmodel.co.uk) and Oxford University Press book 'Policing Domestic Violence.’
Laura was consulting producer on Dirty John, the Dirty Truth, co-creator and executive producer of The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey
on CBS and The Case of: Caylee Anthony
on Oxygen and host of the Netflix series Killer in the Family.
Laura is co-creator and co-host of the double award winning podcast, Real Crime Profile, alongside ret. FBI profiler Jim Clemente and Criminal Minds’ casting Director Lisa Zambetti.
Laura has a golden doodle puppy called Beatrice.
Twitter: @LauraRichards99