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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Tom Pettifor

Billie-Jo Jenkins detective regrets not solving murder - but has fresh hope 25 years on

The detective who led the original probe into the murder of 13-year-old Billie-Jo Jenkins has spoken of his regret that the case remains unsolved.

Retired officer Jeremy Paine still hopes improvements in forensic science will nail the killer who battered Billie-Jo to death with an iron tent peg in February 1997.

She was in the back garden of the Hastings home in East Sussex she shared with foster dad Sion Jenkins, his wife Lois and their four daughters.

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