A move from London to the South Coast seemed like the perfect opportunity for a fresh start for Billie-Jo. The 9 year old had not had the easiest start to life and found herself placed into foster care with Lois and Sion Jenkins and their four daughters in London. Coincidentally  Billie -Jo shared her foster family's last name. The family relocated to Hastings for Sion's new job as a deputy head teacher and Billie-Jo was happy go with them and leave the capital behind. The seaside  town was in many ways an idyllic place to live but over the next five years life for Billie Jo and the Jenkins family was increasingly overshadowed by darker happenings. Billie-Jo complained that someone was following her, and the whole family were increasingly spooked by the presence of a prowler on their property. On 15th February 1997, when Billie-Jo was just 13 years old, a seemingly innocuous afternoon spent doing chores for pocket money ended in tragedy. So began one of the most infamous murder investigations of the last 25 years.

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• https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-murder-of-billie-jo-jenkins
• www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/sion-jenkins-saw-who-killed-2155743.ampamp.theguardian.com/uk/2010/aug/19/sion-jenkins-billiejo-murder-acquitted-compensation
• www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/billie-jo-in-an-extraordinary-attack-on-her-ex-husband-lois-jenkins-says-he-was-violent-and-a-liar-466364.html%3famp
• www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/billie-jo-jenkins-mum-calls-9819018.amp
• http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=17&termRef=Billie-Jo%20Jenkins
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• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4559077.stm

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