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In July 2017, Lucy McHugh disappeared. When a dog walker found her body the next morning, the police started to unravel a horrible story and a totally preventable murder.

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Episode Source List:

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/R-v-Nicholson-sentencing-remarks.pdf 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/19/murderer-of-lucy-mchugh-13-jailed-for-minimum-of-33-years

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-54810210 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jul/18/lucy-mchugh-stephen-nicholson-care-worker-guilty-of-murdering-lucy-mchugh 

https://www.pumpcourtchambers.com/2019/11/14/the-murder-of-lucy-mchugh-legal-challenges-in-r-v-stephen-nicholson/ 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48994913 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48828241 

https://www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk/news/national/17782058.predatory-paedophile-jailed-life-lucy-mchugh-murder/ 

https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/01/schoolgirl-lucy-mchugh-died-catastrophic-bleeding-killer-stabbed-27-times-10099049/ 

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/crime/lucy-mchugh-inside-the-chaotic-final-months-as-arguments-turned-schoolgirls-home-into-war-zone-1312059 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lucy-mchugh-murder-trial-stepfather-richard-elmes-stacey-white-a9018256.html 

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17781250.redbridge-community-school-create-garden-memory-lucy-mchugh/ 

https://www.theweek.co.uk/95427/lucy-mchugh-what-do-we-know-about-13-year-old-s-murder 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48856021 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48935740 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48921626