Here is a timeline of events leading up to the conviction of paedophile David Boyd for the 1992 murder of seven-year-old Nikki Allan.
– October 7 1992: That evening, Nikki Allan had been playing with friends outside the block of flats in Sunderland’s East End where she lived. She is lured away by neighbour David Boyd. At around 10pm she is seen skipping to catch him up as he takes her to the derelict Old Exchange building where he savagely murdered her and left her, dead or dying.
