hours. a convicted child abuser has been found guilty of murdering a seven year old girl in sunderland in the north east of england more than 30 years after the killing took place. nikki allen was beaten and stabbed before her body was dumped in a derelict building. this afternoon a jury convicted david boyd of her murder. danny savage reports. a little seven year old girl brutally murdered more than 30 years ago. last seen skipping after a man she was being lured to her death by the river wear. we now know who that man was. david boyd, 25 years old at the time, now 55. pa rt part of the team investigating the murder of nikki allen. advances in dna evidence found traces of him on nikki allan s clothes. nikki lived in a ground floorflat on this estate in sunderland. her killer lived on the third floor of the block. the whole estate has since been demolished. sharon is nikki s mum. it s hard to comprehend the effect this has had on her life. your life just changed and nobody.
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their own communities they cut out coffees. paul says more people are coming in for repairs on his jewellery shop, but the gold he buys has doubled in price and he s not optimistic about the economy. loads of people haven t got any money stop i m not loaded. since i started this business i pay myself not much more than the minimum wage. across the way, alex has had to adapt but he s more optimistic. i m going to keep pushing on with what i m doing and make my business more efficient and if anything i ve learned from this crisis and i ve had to rethink what i m doing. with consumer facing services like this shrinking by 0.8% in march, the economyjust grew by one tenth of 1%. in over three months the uk remains below its pre pandemic level now three and a half years ago but there are some grounds for optimism. surveys are pointing to an acceleration of growth, business confidence, even the housing market, some of the indicators are starting