The smiling faces of Nathaniel Carrier and his two children beamed out from his social media page.
A doting father to Bentlee, then 7, and little sister Kendrah, 5.
It was March 2020 and Nathaniel was proudly posting a stream of happy photographs of his family.
His parents Sandra and Denis, both 56, were relieved that their son appeared so content.
He’d separated from the mother of his children, Heather, five years before.
And after their son’s break-up, his parents had let him move back home.
Nathaniel saw the kids at weekends, making the