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Kelly Higgins still remembers the cuddles from her childhood – warm, protective, soothing. When she was scared or sad, they brought her comfort.
But today those memories prompt powerful emotions for Kelly, now a mother of three.
For while most children remember such tender embraces from their mother or father, for Kelly, and her younger brother James, their sole source of childhood affection was their babysitter, 16-year-old Suzanne Capper.
Kelly’s final memory of Suzanne is her waving the two children off at their school gates in December 1992.
Shockingly, as they were to later discover, Suzanne was tortured to death, in a killing so violent, so heinous, it almost defies belief.
And Suzanne’s killer?
Kelly’s own mother, Bernadette McNeilly.
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