Blonde bombshell

Dominique Thomas, 25, from Cardiff

Chatting to Connor, my boyfriend of two years, as we made dinner, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

‘You’re kidding?’ I blurted, as he explained again what my neighbour Jessica had said to him.

It was May 2020 and I’d lived a few flats down from Jessica Verallo, then 27, for five years, since before my daughter from a previous relationship – Daisy, then 4 – was born.

Me and Jessica weren’t close, I didn’t know her well at all really, but we went to the same gym, said hello.

So as Connor, then 19, told me