BRAGGING BLUNDER
It was 6pm and already dark out, but it was only a short walk. At least that’s what Claire Tiltman, 16, thought when she made her way to her friend’s house in January 1993.
But in an alleyway near her home in Greenhithe, Kent, Claire was stabbed nine times and left to die.
Her distraught parents, Cliff and Linda, hoped her killer would be caught quickly. But as time ticked on, police were no closer to finding the culprit. The case went cold and in March 2008, Linda, 56, died of throat cancer.
When Cliff, 62, fell ill he made a final appeal for information from his deathbed, before passing away in September 2012.
It wasn’t until February 2014 that a man was finally charged with Claire’s murder.…
