Joanna Parrish was just 20 when she was raped and killed in Moneteau, France in May 1990 by Michel Fourniret - known as the Ogre of the Ardennes - who confessed to her murder three years before his death in prison in 2021
Today, two elderly grandmothers - one British, the other French - will come face-to-face, a few feet apart, across a drab courtroom in the suburbs of Paris.
Patrick Proctor told a Paris court how his dream of settling down with the intelligent, cool, mischievous girl he met at Leeds University was destroyed 33 years ago.
Shamed into re-examining Joanna s murder more rigorously, a new cold-case unit in Paris claims to have identified a convincing suspect and amassed sufficient new evidence to bring charges.