him in court. when that guilty verdict was said in court this afternoon after less than two hours of deliberation by the jury, there was uproar in the courtroom. back in 1993 the uproar was because the family hadn t got a guilty verdict. the uproar today was because the family finally got a guilty verdict and knew who killed her. the police came to the courts to calm things down and as for david boyd, he will be sentenced at a later date in a few weeks time. he will undoubtedly go to prison for a long time because he thought he got away with it for three decades but when the police came knocking in 2018, they had the evidence against him and now he has been convicted. in terms of hearing from the in terms of hearing from the family, in terms of hearing from the family, in terms of hearing from the family, i assume we haven t had a statement. what have they said over the years? to be fair to sharon, she has never given up, she visited the graveside. she couldn t go into the b
the man originally guilty. even when the man originally accused back in the 19905 and cleared at leeds crown court was found not guilty, northumbria police insisted at the time that there was nothing wrong with their investigation and it had been carried out properly. spring forward and you had sharon henderson, nikki s mum, overwhelmed with grief. she never gave up and kept campaigning. she kept pushing that case along and reminding everybody ca5e along and reminding everybody that the death of her daughter was still unsolved. the biggest advance 5till unsolved. the biggest advance of this whole ca5e 5till unsolved. the biggest advance of this whole case was developments in dna techniques which was around in dna techniques which was around in the 905 and early century but has got better and better as time has got better and better as time has gone on. it was the dna evidence of david boyd on nikki allan s clothing that eventually approved the overwhelming evidence against