A year after the tragedy that destroyed his life, Graham Tinkley recalled the last time he saw his daughter alive and "thought nothing of it". Mum-of-three Clair Ablewhite paid a visit to her parents in Cropwell Bishop, in Nottinghamshire, on a Friday afternoon on February 25 last year.
Little did her parents know that later that night Clair would have been killed in a brutal murder by her ex. The tragedy has haunted her dad Mr Tinkley ever since, who struggles to sleep at night.
"The pain will never go away", the 75-year-old said a year after the murder. "She visited us earlier that day in the afternoon, before going to work.