IN REFERENCE to the recent scant coverage of the Lucy McHugh murder, I have to ask: why have the public not been given more information?

The murder of a teenage girl in our area is not commonplace, but day in and day out, the news is full of other stories with no fresh information on what happened to poor Lucy – surely some headway must have been made in this case by now?

I would like to know: is there still a child killer in our midst? Should parents in the area be keeping their children close and watching out for strangers?

While I appreciate the need for details of the case to be withheld from the public, I feel that a modicum of reassurance is needed, and if we need to be on the alert then please let this be known.

I should imagine that, like me, every local parent found this event to be truly heartbreaking. We need to know what is being done to bring the evil person who killed Lucy to justice, and we need to know if other children are in danger.

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