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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.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2006
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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 ...