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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.
Andrew Jones is serving a life sentence for killing Michael O'Leary. During the investigation, detectives found a piece of small intestine at Jones' yard on Cincoed Farm, in Cwmffrwd. The...
Dec 30, 2022 · Mrs McCourt’s campaigning following her daughter’s death led to the Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act, dubbed Helen’s Law, being enacted in 2021, making it harder for...
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Sep 7, 2020 · Marie McCourt has been ordered to pay Ian Simms' costs after a High Court bid to stop his release from prison failed.
On 9 February 1988, Helen McCourt, a 22-year-old British insurance clerk from Bootle, Merseyside, disappeared in the village of Billinge, Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, shortly after disembarking from a bus less than 500 yards from her home. [1] Her body has never been found. [2]
Nov 8, 2023 · Ian Simms, a local pub landlord, was handed a life sentence in 1989 for Helen McCourt’s murder despite her body never being found, and he was released in 2020 before his death in 2022. He...
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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...
