Article: MURDER, SION AND ME; EXCLUSIVE: 'Sion offered no comfort. I recall the look in his eyes as he told the children: "Billie's dead." It had no trace of emotion': AS HE WALKS FREE, SION JENKINS' EX-WIFE GIVES A DEVASTATING ACCOUNT OF HIS VIOLENT MOODS, HIS LIES AND HOW HE BEAT THEIR CHILDREN.

Byline: LOIS JENKINS

FORMER deputy head teacher Sion Jenkins was sensationally acquitted on retrial last week of the 1997 murder of his 13-year-old foster daughter Billie-Jo after the jury failed to reach a verdict.

But crucial evidence was excluded from the trial, including testimony from his ex-wife about his violence. Here, Lois Jenkins describes that aggression, vividly recounts the day that shook her world, and tells of the awful realisation that her ex-husband's conduct had led her to suspect him of murder...

MY LIFE over the past nine years has been totally shaped by the murder of Billie-Jo.

It destroyed my self-confidence and ...

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