On a stormy night in February 1988, 22-year-old Helen McCourt left work early but never arrived home for the tea her mother Marie had waiting. Helen, a clerk at the Royal Insurance in Liverpool, reached her village of Billinge in St Helens, Merseyside, but vanished just a few hundred yards from her house. Her body was never found, but overwhelming evidence including pioneering DNA testing led to local pub landlord Ian Simms being convicted of her murder and sentenced to life. He has never confessed but was released after more than 30 years in jail last yea r, despite a campaign by Marie, 77, to keep him behind bars until he revealed the location of her remains. Shortly afterwards, too late to aid her own case, the mum finally succeeded in
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