Ann Lovett: Silence that will never be broken

SHE was a darling daughter, her death notice said, and a happy, intelligent, interested girl, according to her school.

Yet whenever the name of Ann Lovett comes up, the words used to describe her are heavy with tragedy, and, 30 years on from her death, little has changed in the way her story can be told.

It remains a painful, shameful episode in the country’s social history.