Justice for Helen: As featured in The Mirror
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Justice for Helen: As featured in The Mirror

A mother's quest to find her missing daughter

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Justice for Helen: As featured in The Mirror

A mother's quest to find her missing daughter

About this book

As featured in The Mirror, this is the story of mother's quest to find her murdered daughter

Burying a child is every parent's nightmare. But Marie McCourt has spent over 30 years yearning to do just that.
On 9 February 1988, Marie's 22-year-old daughter, Helen, left her office in Liverpool city centre and began her usual commute home. But she was never seen again. . . Within days, local pub landlord Ian Simms was charged with her murder. Despite Helen's body not being found, overwhelming DNA and circumstantial evidence at his trial secured his conviction, and he was sentenced to life.

But Simms' refusal to disclose the whereabouts of Helen's body means that Marie and her family have never been able to have a grave at which they can lay flowers and pay their respects.

For over 30 years, Marie has searched, in vain, for her daughter's body and campaigned tirelessly to prevent other families from facing the same horrifying fate, taking her fight to the houses of parliament. The resulting 'Helen's Law', ground-breaking legislation that recognises the distress caused to families of missing homicide victims, was passed in November 2020.

This is the incredible story of a mother, devastated by the loss of her daughter, who
found the strength and determination to change the law.

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Information

Publisher
John Blake
Year
2021
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781789462920
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. A twinkle in my eye
  9. Chapter 2. A dream daughter
  10. Chapter 3. Where is she?
  11. Chapter 4. Please come home, Helen
  12. Chapter 5. Never coming home
  13. Chapter 6. The ‘no’ year
  14. Chapter 7. The trial
  15. Chapter 8. The verdict
  16. Chapter 9. Bring her home
  17. Chapter 10. Learning to live without her
  18. Chapter 11. The victims’ champion
  19. Chapter 12. Twisting the knife
  20. Chapter 13. ‘Tell me mum I’m here’
  21. Chapter 14. My faith is sorely tested
  22. Chapter 15. The fight begins
  23. Chapter 16. To Downing Street and Parliament
  24. Chapter 17. Stalemate
  25. Chapter 18. Elation . . . followed by ‘the unthinkable’
  26. Chapter 19. A race against time
  27. Chapter 20. To the High Court
  28. And now . . .
  29. Acknowledgements
  30. Contact Marie McCourt
  31. Support and useful organisations
  32. Novena to St Martha
  33. Plates

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