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My Sweet Little Girl .........

My sweet little girl ………

On Thursday night Catherine’s mother (Annie) decided to phone the police about her daughter never returning home from school. She had left home at 8:00am, she had a rounders match on the night so her mother didn’t expect her home till about 4:30 but 3 hours on from then, 7:30 and Catherine still hadn’t returned home. In desperation Anne went and searched all over the town for Catherine but no one had saw her. She ended up at Catherine’s best friends house and asked her if she had walked to school with her that morning. Amy (Her best friend) said “she phoned me at about 7:50 and told me she would meet me at the bus stop, but she never did”. Annes’ heart leapt into her throat now and fear overcame her whole body, for a moment she was paralysed with horror, then she picked up Amy‘s phone and called the police………….

On the Saturday morning a tearful Anne got the knock on the door from the police she had been dreading, they had found a teenage girls'' body in a lake approximately 40 miles away. They wanted her to identify it to see if it was Catherine. An hour later and Anne was identifying her daughters’ body!! It was her only child, Catherine, Anne sobbed her heart out, her beloved daughter dead. The police couldn’t give out many details of how she died because of it being a murder investigation, they were afraid of information leaking to the press before a case was built.

Catherine’s neck had deep marks on which showed she had been hung with her own school tie, and her head had been shaved prior to her body being bagged up and thrown in the lake. The police had investigated for 2 weeks then finally they had a breakthrough. On the clothes on her body they finally traced a hair of a 35 year old widower, George Delgany, that had been released from prison a week before the murder, he showed no remorse.

The locals were in uproar at this criminal being let loose to murder a child.

Finally the day of his trial came and the whole sad truth of the matter emerged. It appeared that ‘innocent’ Catherine had been bullying George’s 11 year old daughter who went to the school nearby. Aleesha, the man’s daughter had taken months of being teased about her mixed race, being pushed around, slapped, punched, kicked Then the final day of humiliation came. Catherine waited outside her school with several other girls she dragged Aleesha to a lake, pinned her down and cut her hair off with pinking shears, she slashed her skin to ‘see if her blood runs red like mine’, she laughed all the way through the beating she gave her. Then poor Aleesha wet herself in fear, Catherine laughed and laughed as Aleesha managed to get away she ran to her foster parents. Throughout the time Aleesha had kept it to herself, when she got back there was no-one at home to comfort her. After crying and watching at the window for an hour she finally decided her life was finished and Aleesha climbed into the loft and hung herself with her own school tie.

George was utterly devastated when he heard the news, he was not there to protect his little girl he had known about the bullying from her letters to him, in which she named the girls responsible, she begged him not to tell anyone as she would be moved foster homes again and was afraid she would not be able to see her friends at school. Whilst serving his sentence George was taken to his daughters funeral, he stood silently in cuffs as he watched his beautiful baby lowered into the ground, something in his heart died and was buried with her that day. It was then that George made a decision that would change so many lives.

On his release he set out to seek a serious confrontation with the evil girl he held totally responsible for his daughters death. He waited outside the school she went to, he had no intention of killing her to start with, but he saw Catherine punch a Chinese girl and laugh at her shouting ‘slant’ as she went towards the park. He followed her as she walked alone across the grass and finally confronted her about Aleesha but instead of the remorse George was hoping for he found that Catherine laughed in his face about it. Suddenly the rage and pain he had endured took over and in a ''red mist'' he grabbed her throat, he held the tie tight and finally overpowering her pulled it up across the branch of a tree, Catherine dangled there for a while, her legs kicking, finally she stopped moving and George bundled her into his car. The rest of the story we know.

As George was taken away from the court he passed Anne who screamed "My baby didn''t deserve to have her life stolen from her" at him, he turned slowly to her, Anne was frozen to the spot, George’s expression was stoney and his only response. “what comes round ........ goes round”