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Helen McCourt: Secret of Her Whereabouts is Taken to the Grave
The 22-year-old’s murderer has died without telling her family the location of her remains.
Hopes that the killer of Helen McCourt Ian Simms will tell her relatives where he secreted her body have been dashed after it was revealed that the former pub landlord has died.
However, Helen’s 78-year-old mother Marie McCourt has told the press she hopes the new development will lead to fresh leads in the case — and her finally being able to bury her daughter’s remains.
Helen’s disappearance — and evidence of murder
Helen, 22, was working as an insurance clerk in the British city of Liverpool on February 9th 1988, and she took the bus home to nearby Billinge that evening as usual.
She had spoken to her mother that afternoon and was spotted by a witness getting off the bus at her stop — around 500 yards from her home — at around 5:15 PM. The journey back to her own front door should have been a short one, but Helen never got there and was never seen again.
An investigation by police revealed a witness who said he had heard a scream coming from the George and Dragon pub that Helen would have had to walk past — and further enquiries…
