LIFE SENTENCE. Murder Victims and Their Families.

Paperback. Harrowing stories from the hidden victims of murder. A teenage boy is snatched as he walks up the road, minutes from his own house, and beaten to death with a hammer; on a quiet country road a wife and mother is attacked, raped and murdered; 2 psychiatric patients are stabbed to death in their sheltered accommodation; a young girl is killed in her own bedroom by a neighbour she hardly knows. Death in any circumstances is devasting, but when the cause is murder, grief takes on an extra dimension. Those left behind live under a life sentence, condemned to years of painful memories. Based on personal interviews with victims' families, the author tells the horrific stories of these murders and how the families have faced the future. Illus. 240pp. paperback. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.