Justice for Colette: My daughter was murdered - I never gave up hope of her killer being found. He was finally caught after 26 years by Kirby Jacqui

Author:Kirby, Jacqui [Kirby, Jacqui]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781857827057
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2012-01-25T23:00:00+00:00

With the family home up for sale, I put in an offer on a lovely little Georgian townhouse in Arnold, Nottingham. I was delighted when my offer was accepted, and I’d received my settlement from the sale of our old house. I took quite a bit of furniture from the house because Tony had bought a mobile home in Tollerton, a village outside Nottingham, which was already furnished. I had to move in with my mum for the first six weeks until the sale was complete. Once it was, I bought new carpets and a three-piece suite for my new home.

But Mum couldn’t understand why I was going to such expense. ‘Why are you buying all this?’ she asked me one day.

‘It needs to be as I want it. Once I’m in there and living on my own, I’ll probably never be able to afford to do it again, so I might as well do it properly and get it right from the start.’

I felt torn leaving the old family home. We’d lived there for over ten years and had moved into it when Colette had been just eight years old. Tony and I had bought the house from the builder, who had built two properties. We lived in one and Jan, the manageress from the salon, lived in the other. It had felt like we were surrounded by family. I hated moving out because somehow it felt as if I was leaving Colette behind, all on her own. The constant smell of carnations in the hallway and my meeting with Doris Stokes had convinced me Colette was there. Even so, I also knew that for my sanity I couldn’t go on with things the way they were. In the end, I told myself that Colette would have understood.

But it didn’t make clearing out her old bedroom any easier. I gave my mum her bed for her spare room. I’d already given all her clothes away to charity but I kept all of the dancing medals and diplomas that she’d proudly won, one after the other. Along with her trinkets and some of her favourite childhood fluffy toys, Colette’s personal things stayed with me for safe keeping. They remain so to this day.

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