A notorious murderer who tormented his victim’s family for 34 years about the whereabouts of her body has died.
“I just pray now that somebody may have some details of where he said he had done it.“It’s hard to lose a child through illness, it’s worse when someone deliberately takes her life.”Murderer Ian Simms - jailed for life for the murder of Helen McCourt - Billinge, 1988,Investigations soon led to the door of the George and Dragon on Main Street where Simms was the publican.
But despite large-scale searches and subsequent inquiries over the decades by Helen’s surviving family, her body has never been found.Simms was handed a life sentence in 1989 after being convicted by a jury on overwhelming DNA evidence of Helens abduction and murder.
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