On July 6, 2015, Jean Road walked from her house and got into her son's car.

Adrian Road started driving across the city of Bath.

Good evening. A man from Bristol has appeared in court charged with the murder of a teenage girl in Bath more than 30 years ago.

Only a few days earlier, Jean and Adrian had no idea who'd killed Melanie in June

1984. Then had come the DNA hit, an arrest and a name. Christopher Hampton, who's 63, appeared

before Bath magistrates earlier today. In a few moments, they would see the killer's face for the first time.

Melanie Road was just 17. She'd been for a night out with her friends in the city. They'd separated.

She walked home alone. Her body was found with multiple stab wounds by a garage near her home.

Adrian and Jean got to the courtroom. They met the detective who had found the

killer, Detective Chief Inspector Julie Mackay. Another woman called Julie, Julie Hampton, arrived to see

the man who, until days before, she believed, was a law-abiding husband. And Christopher Hampton's

wife sat in the public gallery too,

alongside Melanie Rhodes family as he made his first appearance before the courts.

Two families, each in their own way,

torn apart by the actions of the man in the dock three decades earlier.

My name is Robert Murphy. I'm an ITV news correspondent. I was in court that rainy July

day in 2015 when Jean and Adrian Road saw Menly's killer through the toughened glass

of a magistrate's dock, a moment for which they'd waited since June 1984. Detectives had their man, but could they get justice?

They needed to prove that Christopher Hampton had murdered Melanie 31 years earlier.

They would need more than a DNA match.

The last time we heard that even the Crown Prosecution Service lawyer was in doubt about

charging, surely a defence

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