The mother of murder victim Helen McCourt faces losing her home if a legal challenge to return her daughter's killer to prison fails.
Marie McCourt has applied for the High Court to review the Parole Board decision that freed on licence Ian Simms, 63, who had been serving a life sentence for the abduction and murder of her 22-year-old daughter in 1988.
Simms has refused to disclose the location of Helen's body, with constant campaigning by Mrs McCourt leading to legislation currently before the House of Lords which would deny parole to such killers.
But Mrs McCourt, from Billinge, Merseyside is now worried as she faces more than £75,000 in costs if her High Court bid, which is listed to be heard from July 29, is unsuccessful. "Simms has
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