On May 3, 2019, 17-year-old Ellie Gould was studying for her A-levels at home when there was a knock at the door. It was Thomas Griffiths, her ex-boyfriend, with whom she had broken up with the night before.
When Ellie’s mother, Carole, returned home later that day, her daughter was dead. She had been strangled and stabbed 13 times in the face and neck. Griffiths, also 17 and a pupil at the same school, had arranged the scene to make it look like Ellie had inflicted the fatal wounds herself, placing the knife in her hand and reinserting it into her neck, but he would later be convicted of her murder and sent to prison.
