From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.

If you can imagine almost a stereotypical, beautiful summer English scene of golden fields and a little copse of trees and a path running through it.

This murder happened in the most picturesque part of England.

My Sunday Times colleague Emily Dugan has been investigating a horrific 30-year-old murder

which took place in the small village of Chilenden in Kent.

Lynne Russell and her two daughters, Megan and Josie, Megan was six and Josie was nine.

We're walking home from school. They were also walking their dog, Lucy,

probably feeling very safe in it, you know, in a very ordinary afternoon as far as they're concerned.

A car pulled up in front of them on a kind of dirt track and a man came out with a hammer

and attacked the three of them. They were dragged into the copse of trees, tied up, bludgeoned with the hammer, and they were all left for dead.

It was the most vicious attack.

Lynn and Megan both died.

When police arrived at the scene, they assumed Josie was dead, and indeed her father, Sean, was told that everybody had died.

But in fact, later, when she did show signs of movement,

she was rushed to hospital, and she did survive with catastrophic brain injuries,

but she did survive nonetheless.

This brutal story became an infamous case in the 1990s.

This family were a very wholesome family, for want of a better phrase.

The idea that a mother could be just walking home on a sunny summer's afternoon with her

two daughters from primary school and attacked in such a vicious way, I think it just shocked

to everybody.

There was huge interest in the case across the UK, but for months and months the police seemingly made little progress.

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