Hello everyone, my name is Jessie Weir. You may know me from my podcast called Table Manners

where I talk about food and family. Well actually my first job is being a singer and I have

an album called That Feels Good. Coming out and you can listen to it if you don't

can't see this mean to me in Lenny chat about cheese for an hour. It's all for you,

anyone can listen to it and I'd love you to have a little go. That feels good out now on your

preferred streaming platform. I think it made me feel good.

Welcome to season 5 episode 9 of The Walker Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

This is part one of a two-part case with the second installment available next week.

This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence.

This podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listen a caution is advised.

A woman in her early 20s goes missing on a journey home from work. A few days pass and some of her

belongings are found, discarded just under 20 miles away. Police suspect foul play and the murder

charges late. But why was she killed and where was her body?

It was a day like any other. Alan McCourt left her job during the late afternoon of Tuesday,

February 9, 1988. The 22-year-old worked as a computer operator at the headquarters for the Royal

Insurance Company on Old Hold Street in Liverpool. Alan had moved back in with her mother Mary

and younger brother Michael, who was 19 at the time. Alan's parents did not live together.

They had divorced some years ago. She did not see a great deal of her father William,

he was a driver and often worked away from home.

The office worker replied to meet her mother and grandmother for lunch that day.

However due to the bad weather, they cancelled the get together.

Alan's mother Mary would later recall to a packed courtroom how Helen had been struggling

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