‘This is after totally devastating me. I am shocked’

“THERE was a little fellow of five, a smaller fellow. They have been here about two months. We’d say hello passing. They seemed to be a quiet family. He was from around Milford and she was from Tournafulla.

“I don’t think she was working and you’d see her down in the shops. He’d be around later in the day. We heard about it in school at about half two. It’s a very quiet, safe town.”

That was how schoolgirl Leslie Quilligan, who lives nearby in Assumpta Park, remembered Sarah Hines, her children, Amy (4 months) and Reece (3) as with her partner they walked their dog in Hazel Grove Estate in the quiet little village of Newcastle West.