File photo of Rachel Nickell. Picture: PA FILMING for a drama on the investigation into the devastating murder of a former Colchester schoolgirl has begun. Rachel Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in front of son Alex Hanscombe, then aged two, while walking their dog on Wimbledon Common. Alex was found by a passer-by clinging to her body, crying ‘Mummy, get up’. The 1992 attack shocked the country and was one of the UK’s most high-profile cold cases until paranoid schizophrenic Robert Napper, 42, admitted manslaughter. Rachel was a pupil at Great Totham Primary School, before going on to Colchester County High School for Girls after passing her 11-plus exam.
File photo of Rachel Nickell. Picture: PA FILMING for a drama on the investigation into the devastating murder of a former Essex schoolgirl has begun. Rachel Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in front of son Alex Hanscombe, then aged two, while walking their dog on Wimbledon Common. Alex was found by a passer-by clinging to her body, crying ‘Mummy, get up’. The 1992 attack shocked the country and was one of the UK’s most high-profile cold cases until paranoid schizophrenic Robert Napper, 42, admitted manslaughter. Rachel was a pupil at Great Totham Primary School, before going on to Colchester County High School for Girls after passing her 11-plus exam.
File photo of Rachel Nickell. Picture: PA FILMING for a drama on the investigation into the devastating murder of a former Essex schoolgirl has begun. Rachel Nickell, 23, was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in front of son Alex Hanscombe, then aged two, while walking their dog on Wimbledon Common. Alex was found by a passer-by clinging to her body, crying ‘Mummy, get up’. The 1992 attack shocked the country and was one of the UK’s most high-profile cold cases until paranoid schizophrenic Robert Napper, 42, admitted manslaughter. Rachel was a pupil at Great Totham Primary School, before going on to Colchester County High School for Girls after passing her 11-plus exam.