The worst thing a parent can go through had already happened to Christine Durand. Her son Steven was missing, and she had no idea if he was even alive. But what Christine, who is now 70, didn’t realise was that things were only going to get worse over the coming months and years.
“I just feel like they’ve not cared at all, like I’ve been left on the shelf,” she tells The Independent. “I used to have to go down to the police station every single day about my son, crying. They let me down on many occasions.”