On the morning of June 18, 23-year-old Gracie Spinks, a keen equestrian, said goodbye to her mother and drove the short distance to Blue Lodge Farm in Duckmanton, Derbyshire. She kept her horse Paddy there.
What should have been a routine trip ended in tragedy. Shortly after 8am, the former lifeguard was found in a pool of blood in the field. She had a stab wound to her neck which had severed an artery and cut through her spine. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.
She is believed to have been murdered by Michael Sellers, 35, an ex-colleague at a warehouse where she worked, who was also found dead nearby.