Helen’s mum Marie McCourt said she was ‘absolutely appalled’ her daughter’s murderer was walking around unsupervised.She told the publication: ‘Why should he be allowed his freedom when I still haven’t been able to bury my daughter after all these years?
Helen, an insurance clerk, was on her way home from work when she vanished on 9 February 1988 – just two days after Simms, who was 31 and married with two young children at the time, banned her from his pub following an argument. The case is a rare example where a murder conviction has been obtained without the presence of a body – and was one of the first in the UK to use DNA fingerprinting.
In October 2016 MPs voted in favour of a new ‘Helen’s Law’ to deny killers parole if they will not reveal where victims’ remains are but it has yet to receive the Government backing it needs to become law.In February 2017 Justice Minister Phillip Lee told the Commons that such a move risked creating ‘perverse incentives’ for murderers to lie about where their victims were buried, causing further ‘unthinkable’ pain for families of those killed.
Sometimes this country's 'justice system' makes me sick to the core. Me, personally, I would have had him hanged.
'Simms, who maintains his innocence'.... I think that might be the clue as to why he hasn't said where he hid the body, he still denies he did the crime.
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