Cathy Kelly had good reason to worry about the safety of her daughter Susan.
Until the age of 24, Susan Kelly had been a bright, happy young woman from Litherland who dreamed of working with the disabled and held down jobs in a care home and behind the bar of a nightclub.
But in the mid 1980s she began to suffer from severe mental illness, and her life descended into chaos and drug addiction. Despite her daughter's challenges, Cathy, from Bootle, could never have imagined the events of September 4, 2000, when a dog walker made a disturbing discovery in an alley off Blessington Road, Anfield.
