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Marked by a murderer

Natalie Mallette, 38, Aberdeen

Hearing the rattle of the letterbox, I raced to the front door and scooped up the bundle on the doormat.

Rifled through the junk mail until I found the letter I’d been waiting for.

Ripping it open, I began to read, until I felt a little hand pull at my sleeve.

‘What’s that?’ my daughter Christina, then 4, piped up.

‘It’s from Mummy’s special friend, ’ I smiled.

It was 2007 and I’d been writing to Norman Duncan for a few months, after a mutual friend suggested it.

His nickname was Nozzie, he was then 28, and his words scrawled

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