I was waiting for her to COME HOME

All any mother wants is for their daughter to be happy, healthy and safe, so when I turned on the news in March 2011 to see the parents of missing 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan, I knew the sick feeling they’d have in their stomachs. My own daughter, Becky, had disappeared eight years earlier. As I watched the O’Callaghans beg for information about their daughter’s whereabouts, I felt every bit of the pain in their voices.

I followed their story over the next few days, sobbing for them when the manhunt ended in tragedy and a man arrested for murder led detectives to Sian’s body. I kept imagining the immense grief her poor mum must be