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1. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-england-merseyside-54056166Helen McCourt's mother ordered to pay killer £40,000 legal fees

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   Sep 7, 2020 · A murdered woman's mother has been told to pay her daughter's killer £40,000 in legal fees. Marie McCourt has been ordered to pay Ian Simms' costs after a High Court bid to stop his release...

2. www.bbc.com › news › uk-england-merseyside-67358194Helen McCourt: Mother of murder victim becomes MBE - BBC

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   Nov 9, 2023 · A local pub landlord, Ian Simms, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt's murder despite her body never having been found. He was released in 2020 and died in 2022.

3. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-england-merseyside-67358194Helen McCourt: Mother of murder victim becomes MBE

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   Nov 9, 2023 · A local pub landlord, Ian Simms, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt's murder despite her body never having been found. He was released in 2020 and died in 2022.

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   Jan 30, 2020 · For more than three decades, Marie McCourt, now 72, has felt tormented by pub landlord Simms for his refusal to reveal what happened to her 22-year-old daughter’s body after he abducted and...

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5. www.independent.co.uk › news › ukHelen McCourt’s mother describes killer’s death as ‘great ...

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   Jun 27, 2022 · Marie McCourt, the mother of Helen McCourt, has said she now hopes that someone connected to murderer Ian Simms will come forward and reveal where he hid her body following his death.

6. www.independent.co.uk › news › ukMurder victim’s mother behind Helen’s Law found it hard ...

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   Nov 8, 2023 · A local pub landlord, Ian Simms, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt’s murder despite her body never being found, and he was released in 2020 and died in 2022.

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   Who killed Helen McCourt?

   • A local pub landlord, Ian Simms, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt's murder despite her body never having been found. He was released in 2020 and died in 2022. He always maintained his innocence and never disclosed where he hid Helen's body.

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   Who is Marie McCourt?

   • A murdered woman's mother has been told to pay her daughter's killer £40,000 in legal fees. Marie McCourt has been ordered to pay Ian Simms' costs after a High Court bid to stop his release from prison failed. Simms was jailed in 1989 for the murder of 22-year-old Helen McCourt on Merseyside and has never revealed where her body was hidden.

   Helen McCourt's mother ordered to pay killer £40,000 legal fees

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   What happened to Helen McCourt?

   • Helen McCourt disappeared in Merseyside in 1988 and her body has not been found, after searches were carried out. Killer Ian Simms has been released from prison despite never revealing where he hid the remains of the 22-year-old. Marie McCourt said him being freed days before the anniversary of her daughter going missing was "insensitive",

   Helen McCourt: Mother tells killer Ian Simms 'Give me my child back' - …

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   Who killed Mrs McCourt?

   • Simms, who never admitted his guilt, killed Ms McCourt as she walked home from work in Liverpool. Mrs McCourt has campaigned for a change in the law to deny parole to killers who do not disclose the location of their victims' bodies.

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   Who was Helen McCourt?

   • Her daughter Helen McCourt, 22, was killed after vanishing near their home in St Helens, Merseyside in 1988. Mrs McCourt has since campaigned to deny killers parole for failing to tell the location of their victims' remains. The Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act, dubbed Helen's Law, came into force in 2021.

   Helen McCourt: Mother of murder victim becomes MBE - BBC

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   How does Mrs McCourt help other families of murdered victims?

   • Mrs McCourt, from Wigan, told the PA news agency she regularly helps other families of murdered victims find the bodies of their loved ones. She said: “We’re still helping families of victims … it’s hard for me, so many people come to me for help and it breaks me.”

   Murder victim’s mother behind Helen’s Law found it hard receiving her

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8. www.bbc.com › news › uk-england-merseyside-51396966Helen McCourt: Mother tells killer Ian Simms 'Give me my ...

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   Feb 6, 2020 · A mother who campaigned for more than 30 years to find out where the remains of her daughter are hidden has told her killer to "give her child back". Helen McCourt disappeared in Merseyside in...