Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter It was a warm May bank holiday weekend.
The McCann/Lawson family had gathered for a BBQ - but someone was missing. The next day police found dissected body parts in bin bags at the local country park in Stockport.
Yvonne McCann, 46, had been murdered and her family have been left wondering why. She met Thomas McCann when she was 14, and he was three years her senior, in 1988.
The pair were childhood sweethearts and gave birth to their three children in the early 90s. “She certainly had her hands full with us,” her daughter Rachel Lawson said in a statement.
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