Our fight for JUSTICE
Aug 17, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS: TRACY GAYTON.
PHOTOS: ALAMY, PRIME FEATURES
As Val Earl clutches the paperwork proving her marathon fight for justice is over, her mind returns to a day long ago, and a photo of a stroll along a beach with her daughter Jessie.
‘Today that day at the seaside is just a distant memory – although one that I can’t forget. Because a week later, Jessie went missing,’ remembers Val, now 90, from Eltham, south London. ‘There was no further trace of her for a decade.’
Now, over 40 years after that last photo of
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