intercepted. and british prime minister rishi sunak says he s disappointed at the european broadcasting union s zelenskyy from making an address at the eurovision song contest. we start with the breaking news in the last couple of hours. a convicted child abuser has been found guilty of brutally murdering a seven year old girl in the north east of england more than 30 years after the killing took place. nikki allan was repeatedly hit about the head and stabbed dozens of times in sunderland in october 1992. prosecutors told newcastle crown court she was then dumped like rubbish in a derelict building near her home. david boyd, 55, from stockton on tees, was convicted after a three week trial. he will be sentenced on 23 may. our news correspondent, danny savage was at newcastle crown court and explains why this prosecution has taken so long. it was a complex and challenging case for northumbria police but they spent many years going off down the wrong avenue thinking that a
it was a complex and challenging case for northumbria police but they spent many years going off down the wrong avenue thinking that another man was guilty. and even when the man originally accused back in the early 1990s and cleared at east crown court was found not guilty, police insisted at the time that there was nothing wrong with their investigation and it had been carried out properly. spin forward and you had sharon henderson, who is nikki s mum overwhelmed by grief after this awful episode in her life for her child is murdered. she never gives up, she keeps campaigning, she gets lawyers, she takes all civil cases. as she keeps pushing that case along and reminding everybody that the death of her daughter and the killing of her daughter was still unsolved. the biggest advance in this whole case was developments in dna techniques which was around in the 1990s and early in the century but has got better and better as time is going on.