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I said, "Have you just had someone in

to report a Jane Harrison missing?"

And they said, "Yes."

I said, "Well, that's my sister.

Something sinister has happened to my sister."

She'd disappeared, seemingly from the face of the Earth.

What could possibly have happened to a young mother,

in broad daylight, in the middle of London?

Ryan went to bed that night,

thinking he's gonna get up in the morning,

they're all gonna be going off to Florida,

and he woke up into a nightmare that he's still in to this day.

But when a killer refuses to reveal the location of a body,

police, prosecutors and forensic teams

have an almost impossible task to deliver justice.

And that just killed us even more,

to think we are doing a life sentence...

..and he's free to do what he wants.

- Jane's sisters, and her two sons, are still searching for answers.

What happened to Jane?

How could she have disappeared without a trace?

This is their story.

Jane Harrison from North London

hasn't been seen for a month,

and detectives believe she's been abducted and killed.

- 32-year-old Jane Harrison is excited to be going on holiday

with her kids and partner, Kevin.

The couple enjoy a last-minute shopping trip...

..but just 24 hours later, Jane is missing.

- Jane went to Wood Green

to get some last-minute bits for her holiday.

She rang me up, but unfortunately, I missed the call.

But my son took it.

She went, "Tell Mummy, I'm down Wood Green, I'm buying some bikinis,"

cos she was going to America, I think, on the Saturday.

And when my son told me, I said, "Lucky cow."

And I knew she'd be on the phone later on that night,

but obviously, she wasn't on that phone.

- The last positive sighting was at 5:20,

and that was Thursday the 15th of June.

- From Wood Green, from that car park,

Jane was never seen again.

I knew immediately,

when I got that phone call at 11:00 or 11:30 at night.

My partner that I was with came and got me out of bed.

He said, "Kevin's on the phone."

I just knew in my heart something was wrong.

So, I answered the phone to him.

He said, "Oh, Maxine, Jane still ain't come home. Is she with you?"

- We knew immediately, that that was...that was...

that weren't right.

There's something seriously gone wrong.

Kevin claimed he'd last spoken to Jane the previous evening,

when he dropped her off near her mother's flat

to head out for drinks with friends.

- He went home to her flat, and her son was there - Ryan.

The house phone rang.

Jane twice phoned her boyfriend

to say that she was in a pub with friends and would be home soon.

She rang Kevin and said,

"I'm out with some friends, having a drink."

Kevin said he was gonna go out and look for her,

look at these different places and all that.

We all descended on Jane's place.

My cousin, she was gonna watch the little ones

while we went off in different directions, trying to find her.

But Maxine and Claire have always had doubts

that Jane was out drinking that evening.

- Wouldn't be going out on a Thursday evening. Where?

If she did, she'd be with myself or Maxine.

- And I know for a fact,

if my sister was going out that night,

from when she left Wood Green, I would have been the first person

she would have contacted - and I never got that call.

Having failed to find Jane,

the family are at a loss as to where she could be.

- I said, "If my sister doesn't turn up by the morning,

I'm going to the police.

She's got till 5:00 o'clock to come home.

Come 5:00 o'clock," I said, "I'm going to the police."

But just before 5:00 o'clock, Kevin rang me and said,

"I'm at the police station.

I've just reported Jane missing."

- Without a shadow of doubt, the initial priority was,

"Where is Jane?" and finding Jane.

One of the things we want to know is:

"Who was the last person to actually see Jane?

Who was the last person we can physically say was with Jane?"

Because we want to speak to them.

We want to understand, when they left Jane, how was Jane?

By talking to her family, her friends,

to Kevin, to her oldest son,

we can understand how Jane lived her live, what her life was about,

and it gives us an indication of why Jane may have disappeared.

It was just an ordinary day for Jane.

There wasn't anything unusual

about her activities that day.

There wasn't anything...

She wasn't in any distress.

She had a plan for the day. She was speaking to people,

the people she always would speak to and interact with in her day.

And all the things she did in her day, she was doing.

And then, all of a sudden, there was nothing.

Even though she was very bubbly on the outside,

she didn't really, deep down, have a lot of confidence,

but she would mask everything by just making you laugh.

She was a real joker, she was.

You could be in the room, and she'd...

Her sense of humour just would fill the room, you know?

We had a really good upbringing, lots of love.

We never had loads of money,

but we made the most of what we had, and we...

It was, um... It was filled with love, the home,

you know, and affection.

We was never short of affection and love.

- The thing is that we're a really, really close-knit family.

I mean, we're very close.

We was never away from each other.

It was mainly always me and Jane.

I mean, she was more or less glued to my side.

Even having the kids, Jane was never out of my house.

The last time I saw Jane,

it was around about the 13th of June.

I was on the bus, going down Essex Road,

and I saw my sister, Jane, with the buggy,

and I banged on the window and shouted out to her.

And she just caught me at the last minute, and she went like that.

And I said, "I'll see you at Mum's."

She waved up at the bus to me, her and Taylor,

and that was the last I saw her.

Obviously, our initial investigation team

had some serious concerns about Jane's whereabouts,

and they wanted to do all they could to find Jane, reassure the family.

Jane had left her two sons - a 14-year-old son

and a 15-month-old son.

I think one of the things we've got to remember here:

we have a family - two sons, sisters, parents -

who are now extremely worried about their missing daughter.

And you can never underestimate the trauma that a family go through

when a miss... a loved one's missing,

particularly if they're missing

in what could be perceived as very suspicious circumstances.

She adored those children, and that's why I knew immediately

that she would never, ever, ever have gone and left them kids,

not...not on her own accord.

Unless she was forced to, or abducted, or killed.

We knew straightaway

there was no way she would leave them children.

If you know how someone lives their life,

and then to just stop...

Bearing in mind, this is somebody who used to contact her sisters

multiple times a day.

She was besotted with her sons.

Something's got to have happened to Jane for that to stop.

- 32-year-old mum of two Jane Harrison has gone missing.

She fails to return from a pre-holiday shopping trip

to Wood Green, and no-one has heard from her since.

What was suspicious was,

the very fact that there was no trace of Jane anywhere.

One moment, she was shopping happily for holiday accessories,

before flying off to have a lovely trip to Florida.

Er, the next minute, she'd disappeared,

seemingly from the face of the Earth.

What could possibly have happened to a young mother,

in broad daylight, in the middle of London?

Ryan took it the hardest.

Taylor was only 15 months, so he knew nothing.

It was Ryan who was always with his mum.

She wouldn't go nowhere without Ryan.

Everywhere she went, Ryan was there.

You know, for that to happen, just killed Ryan.

- My mum wouldn't leave me and my brother like that.

She loves us. She wouldn't do that.

I, myself, contacted all the local emergency services

to ask if there's been any accidents, or incidents

where someone's been brought in,

through losing their memory, being run over, beaten - anything -

and I learnt that she wasn't anywhere,

and that's when I broke down.

- I had the task of having to ring my mum,

to tell her that her daughter is missing.

So, I left it, I think, for about two days, I left it, cos I just ...

My mum couldn't take no more tragedy.

For Jane's mum and dad,

the fear of losing Jane is unthinkable.

They'd already lost one child.

- We had another sister, Shelly - Michelle.

And when I was six, we was in a car accident.

And, unfortunately, Shelly passed away,

which brought us as girls so... more closer together.

So, my mum and dad was very protective of us growing up.

After Jane went missing,

I don't think there was a night that went past

that my mum weren't sobbing.

The search for Jane is underway,

as concerns for her welfare grow.

- The Missing People Charity got involved

in the disappearance of Jane Harrison,

when the family got in touch,

and it was a really...

one of those kind of unusual sets of circumstances.

For the majority of the people who are missing, they go missing.

They decide, they leave.

They're trying to get away from something.

However, some people become missing,

and that was what happened to Jane Harrison.

- Why would Jane disappear,

if she was looking forward to this once-in-a-lifetime holiday?

It didn't make sense.

And vitally, who was the last person that saw her Jane alive?

Who was the last person to have contact with Jane?

- The family are mystified. They have no explanation.

They don't understand what's happened,

and nor do the police.

The police try and just look at what the evidence is telling them.

So, the eyes of the police turn towards the last person

to see her alive - Jane's partner, Kevin.

- Jane met Kevin Doherty in a nightclub in 1992,

and quickly fell for his charm.

- Me and Jane went to Charlie Chan's club -

that was a sort of good club back in the day -

and I remember Jane sitting at the bar, talking to this fella.

And I could tell by his mannerisms that he thought he was God's gift.

And then me and Jane left on our own.

We got a cab home.

And unbeknown to me, he'd got Jane's phone number.

I said to her, "Jane, there's something about him I don't like."

But obviously, she ended up seeing him,

and she fell in love with him.

- I met him a couple of weeks into their relationship,

and I didn't like him from the minute I met him.

I just got an energy from him, that I just thought,

"Well, there's just something about him."

And I thought, "I'll just give him the benefit of the doubt."

You can't judge a person just by meeting them one or two times.

From the outset, Kevin tells Jane

he is separated from the mother of his children.

- He said that they had a very good friendship,

that they shared custody of the children.

He said, the only reason he's not divorced her yet

is because of financial reasons,

and it was easier that way on the children, and stuff like that.

That's what he told my sister, Jane.

As their relationship develops,

Kevin proves himself to be kind and generous

with Jane's teenage son, Ryan.

- Ryan loved him, he was good as gold.

He was good as gold to everyone.

And he was very kind around everyone.

And, you know, he'd bring my mum flowers, or come out for a meal.

- Two years into their relationship, Jane and Kevin had a child.

It was Jane's second child,

and it was Doherty's fourth child,

as he had three with his wife.

- When Jane found out she was pregnant with Taylor,

she was over the moon.

They'd go out, he'd buy her all shopping.

He'd buy the baby everything she needed - pram, cots.

- All she ever wanted was a lovely family unit.

But soon after Taylor is born,

cracks start to appear in Jane and Kevin's relationship.

- You know, she left him quite a few times,

and she moved in with my mum for about six, seven weeks.

She'd probably meet him.

But obviously, he used to manipulate her,

and he used to get round her.

And of course, she went back with him.

- And this is the thing.

They'd be alright for about three weeks,

and then he'd cause a big argument and go off for a week.

Where... Where was he going? I don't know.

- Kevin was a very jealous man,

and he used to play mind games with her.

So, I used to say, "Come and stay with me."

She did come and stay with me.

But the thing is, he'd come round and he'd win her back.

And this is how it went all the time.

One minute, they was OK.

They weren't OK, they was OK, they weren't OK.

But Jane loved him, and she'd had his little baby, Taylor.

- And then he started doing really controlling behaviour things,

like silly things.

Like, you know, hiding the pram,

so she couldn't go out if it wasn't there.

- She'd say, "Max, he's following me."

And I'd say, "Oh, Jane, don't be stupid.

You're getting paranoid," but then I saw it myself.

Because me and her, and another girl -

a cousin of ours - was in the park in Highbury Corner, with our kids,

and we...and Jane went to me, "Look, Max, he's over there."

We looked. He was behind a tree.

So, he was following her.

- He would just do some really cruel things, like, um...

She was very, very clean in the house, Jane.

She'd always clean up and tidy.

And one day, they'd had an argument,

and about two days later, I could smell this awful smell.

And I'm like, "Jane, where's this smell coming from?"

She's like, "I don't know.

I've emptied all the bins, I've washed this out."

It stunk like rotting meat or something,

and she called the housing people out to try and find it.

They traced it back... You know the boiler, the cover of the boiler?

He'd actually put meat inside there.

Yeah, now that's...that's... that's very strange behaviour.

He'd leave, like, knickers in the bed,

like, pretending he's had someone there.

He was insanely jealous -

and I don't know why, because she idolised him.

- She used to say to me, "Max, I'm scared of him."

I used to say, "For God's sake, Jane, get away from him."

And one of the things we do know

about her relationship with Kevin Doherty

is that it was very volatile,

and we are aware now that there was domestic abuse that took place.

But back in the day, back in 1995,

the recognition of domestic violence isn't what it is today.

Obviously, when Jane was seeing Kevin -

I think about a year or whatever went by -

I've started noticing bruises on her.

And I said to her, "Jane, what's going on?"

She'd make up an excuse.

"Oh, I done this," "I fell," "I done that."

But, er, you know, you don't really see things.

I can't say I witnessed anything.

Yeah, she said that they was all perfect.

Like, they was very happy, it was really in a good place.

There was no reason for him to want to hurt Jane.

They was going to Florida and everything.

And a neighbour said, "That's not the case.

I saw them that morning.

He was arguing with her, like that in her face."

But you know, she was ashamed in the early days to say, you know,

"Perhaps I've got it wrong here."

She really wanted it to work.

she really wanted this lovely family unit.

Probably about six weeks before she went missing,

he said he was gonna kill her,

and he was gonna bury her near Epping Forest,

and no-one was ever gonna find her...

..and he was right.

- And I said to the police,

"She's not missing, he's killed her.

He has killed my sister."

- Mum of two Jane Harrison has been missing for four days,

and revelations about the controlling and violent behaviour

of her partner, Kevin Doherty,

has put him in the police spotlight.

- Within a matter of days, it became plain that the prime suspect -

or the person who should have known where Jane was -

was Kevin Doherty,

and he was pulled in for questioning on a number of occasions.

But each time, Doherty told the police

he had no idea where she was,

he had not been involved in her disappearance,

and the last he had seen of Jane

was when he dropped her off near her mother's flat.

- Unbeknown to Kevin, was that Jane's mum was actually in Ireland.

And also, Jane didn't have a key to her mum's house,

so she couldn't get into the house.

It was an inconsistency that added to the intrigue

and the suspicion that was being laid at Kevin's door.

- The whole idea that Jane would have asked Doherty

to drop her off outside an empty flat,

when she would just have been standing in the street,

is inconceivable.

And that's when I told Kevin, "Why are you lying?

Because how could you have just dropped her at Mum's,

when Mum wasn't there?"

And he didn't know what to say.

The longer a person is missing,

the more anxious the police will become,

because then you're looking at,

"Right, why do we have no answers?"

It might be that there is something nefarious involved.

The way you prove somebody has died -

when they're missing and you don't know where they are -

you have to do proof of life.

Even if you want to just disappear, you'll always leave

some kind of footprint - be it with utility companies,

be it with housing, be it travelling documents.

So, it is literally contacting every type of agency you can think of,

to see whether this person is known to them

and whether they've had any contact

post the moment they disappeared.

So, it is a huge presentation to a court, to say,

"This person's life has stopped here."

- The longer it went without any sort of trace at all,

it was deeply suspicious.

As the investigation into Kevin Doherty intensifies,

detectives uncover more shocking revelations.

Jane and Doherty had been shopping for holiday accessories,

because they had been due to go on holiday to Florida,

just two days after Jane disappeared.

Jane was very much looking forward to it,

and very excited about the prospect of such an exciting holiday.

- The initial investigation team found documents

to say that the holiday had been booked,

but it'd never been paid for.

He knew he wasn't going to Florida,

because he'd already cancelled all the travellers cheques,

and he'd done one or two digits on the card wrong.

Everything he done that day was just a ploy

to lead Jane into a false sense of security,

and all along he had different plans for my sister that day.

Jane thought she was coming home.

Jane got meat out of the freezer to cook that night.

Jane had every intention of coming back home.

She wouldn't have left her son and just vanished.

It's possible that she could have been snatched off the street,

but it's more likely that she went with someone she knew.

And so, immediately, the focus would come down

to who was a likely suspect amongst those people she knew.

Doherty was under pressure from her sisters

to report Jane's disappearance to the police,

but he still waited for a day

until he went to the police to say that he didn't know where she was.

The delay in raising the alarm,

from what should have been a concerned partner -

a man worried to death about his missing girlfriend -

again is deeply suspicious.

The description of Jane

Kevin provided to police when he reported her missing

is further cause for concern.

He said that she was really pale,

she had fair hair, she had blue eyes,

and that she was very depressed.

And I said, "That's... That's not my sister.

My sister has a really dark complexion.

She's got piercing green eyes."

You'd know her anywhere. Do you know what I mean?

She had sparkling white teeth.

She was very bubbly.

She weren't timid and depressed.

- Doherty claimed that...

to the police, that as far as he was concerned,

it seemed that Jane had run off with some other man,

and he claimed that he had found some evidence

of a man being in her bedroom.

- Oh, he was slagging my sister off, saying this and saying that -

which was all false, cos nothing was ever proven.

It seems that Kevin's lies had started many years earlier.

Doherty was a distinctly dubious character.

He was having a relationship with Jane,

and they'd had a child together, but he was still seeing his wife.

- In my mind, Kevin was definitely becoming

a significant person of interest, if not a suspect,

in relation to Jane's disappearance.

Kevin was leading a double life.

He had a family in Woodford -

a partner and three children in Woodford -

which was unbeknown to Jane.

And he was also living with Jane, and building a life with Jane

and their 15-month-old son in Islington.

With the domestic abuse background,

Kevin had been the last person who we know definitely saw Jane,

and also the holiday that was booked, but never paid for,

I would now start thinking, "What are we dealing with here?

Um, is this something more sinister than just a missing person inquiry?

Do we now think that Jane is possibly dead?"

- Police now believe that Jane is no longer alive,

and they're increasingly convinced that Kevin Doherty is responsible.

They make the decision to arrest Doherty for abduction.

Everything we had was very circumstantial:

limited phone evidence;

Kevin probably being the last person that we knew who'd seen Jane;

previous allegations - not made to police, but to family members -

and what family members had seen in respect of domestic abuse;

and the coercive and controlling behaviour of Doherty.

There wasn't anything that we could actually, physically say,

"This is what happened to Jane.

This is where it happened, and this is how it happened."

- When they confronted Kevin with that, he just clammed up.

Not ... "No comment. Gonna get a solicitor,"

and just made no comment.

- Cos when the police brought him in for questioning,

they said he's the most arrogant person they've ever met.

- It was a big source of frustration to that initial investigation team,

when you know that somebody's responsible,

but there isn't the evidence there to present to a court, to say,

"This person is responsible."

With a lack of hard evidence,

police have no choice but to let Kevin Doherty walk free...

..but the frantic search for Jane continues.

- Her two sisters, Maxine and Claire,

were really driving it in the press,

to try and keep their sister's name out there.

Jane went on millions of milk bottles.

Also, she was on the side of a bus, local bus.

Um, she was constantly in the local Islington Gazette.

They kept it really high-profile.

You know, everybody in Islington was looking for Jane.

It seemed inconceivable that a woman could disappear,

seemingly off the face of the Earth, in just a short time,

after she'd been shopping in broad daylight,

in one of the most crowded shopping malls in North London.

The police hit the buffers so fast

that they literally could not find any trace of her,

or anybody who could have seen her,

since she left that Wood Green shopping mall,

and they had absolutely no leads.

The case was actually wound down in September 1995,

just barely three months after it had opened.

And it seemed there was no end

to the heartache for Jane's family,

as first her father, John, died,

and then her mother, Dylis.

- And my poor mum and dad went to their grave

with not knowing what happened to their daughter.

- I asked for a cold case review

and they came to see me, and they said,

"We're gonna look at this as a whole new case.

We're gonna take it apart, bit by bit by bit,

as if it happened yesterday."

- It was clear that... the original investigation team...

It was clear they felt that Kevin Doherty was responsible

for Jane's disappearance and, ultimately, Jane's demise.

- And one of the key elements here was cell site evidence.

Police can now interrogate the mobile phone of the chief suspect,

to find out where he was at those times

and the phone calls that he was making.

- One of the things that was very clear,

was that there was a big gap in the understanding of Doherty's phone -

how it was used, when it was used, where it was used.

On the night of Jane's disappearance,

Kevin returned home

and there were a couple of phone calls to home -

one which was heard by the babysitter,

one by Jane's 14-year-old son.

Um, it's the landline that rings.

Doherty answers it.

- When he put the phone down, Doherty told the babysitter,

"That was Jane" - and that she'll be back soon.

A few hours later, Jane's son arrived home...

..and, in a similar fashion, Jane's landline went again.

Doherty picks it up and says,

"Don't worry, just come home."

Puts the phone down, and tells the...

Jane's son and the babysitter, "That was Jane again."

The cell site evidence revealed some astonishing new evidence,

and was a massive breakthrough in the investigation.

They found that two phone calls that Doherty claimed he had received

just hours after Jane's disappearance,

when he was visiting Jane's flat,

were found to be completely bogus.

- The phone calls to the landline were made from his mobile.

- And police immediately suspected that here was Doherty

trying to establish a false alibi for himself

in the hours after Jane had gone missing.

And what he'd done,

he had a mobile, and he rang her house phone.

So, when he'd made sure he'd got in the front room,

that house phone rang, he answered it.

Ryan went to get it, and he wouldn't let him.

He said, "No, I'll get it." And he went, "Oh, hello, Jane.

Where are you? How long you gonna be?"

Making out she was on the phone.

So, Ryan, her son, said, "Let me speak to Mummy."

And he said, "Oh, no, she's gone."

That was the evidence they had.

North London mum of two Jane Harrison

has been missing for 15 years.

Police now believe she is dead...

..and the spotlight is firmly on her partner, Kevin Doherty.

New analysis of his phone records throws up inconsistencies

in his account of his whereabouts on the day Jane disappeared.

- The fact that he said that, when Jane went missing on that night,

he went to all the pubs in Hoxton, looking for Jane -

because he said, "Jane's in a pub" -

it actually proved that he was nowhere near Hoxton.

He was actually over in East London,

where we believe he may have had lock-ups.

- Police obviously went and examined the lock-up garages,

but over the period of time, there's clearly...

no forensic evidence was going to be available,

however suspicious that it could have been

that that was where Doherty had taken her.

- Even more inconsistencies started coming to the fore,

and provided grounds to arrest and re-interview Kevin.

The police came round to tell me.

Well, I was jumping all round the front room.

I was crying; I was happy.

I just could not believe, after all these years,

they've finally got him.

The police, you know, was...

We was just all over the moon that something's finally happened.

Kevin did speak, initially, to the interview teams.

However, when the interview teams

started talking about the phone evidence,

he then started going, "No comment."

With Doherty stonewalling, police review all the evidence

gathered by detectives in the 1995 investigation.

- Our understanding and our maturity

in respect of how we deal with domestic abuse,

has come on leaps and bounds to what it was in 1995.

When you look at Jane and Kevin's relationship at that time,

the amount of things that flashed "high-risk" were huge:

the coercive, controlling behaviour; the isolation;

the psychological games that Kevin played;

the escalation of violence.

When you've got circumstantial evidence,

it is all those little things. It's like a drip-drip-drip effect.

A lot of the initial accounts that Kevin had provided to police

had been unpicked and shown to be not true.

There was clear evidence that supported that he was telling lies.

It was very, very good circumstantial evidence

that could now be presented to the CPS for a charging decision

and, ultimately, to take the case to court.

Despite there being no trace of Jane's body,

Kevin Doherty is charged with her murder.

- When the police finally charged him,

we was over the moon.

- We were just, like, elated.

I mean, I had every emotion going.

I was sad, happy.

Literally took my breath away.

With little physical evidence, however,

Doherty's conviction is by no means certain.

- To prove a homicide, you need to prove that someone's died.

Obviously, without a body,

that makes that challenge exceedingly difficult.

- Well, the obstacles that one would have is, to...

..be satisfied that there is proof

that the victim is no longer living.

And without that proof,

without that degree of potential certainty,

it would be very difficult - if not dangerous -

to prosecute somebody.

- With no body, they had no crime scene -

with all the forensics that might have produced.

Er, they didn't even have a cause of death.

You have to prove beyond all reasonable doubt

that Kevin is responsible for the murder of Jane Harrison.

And if there is that slight bit of doubt in a jury's mind,

then they invariably will return a "not guilty" verdict.

- And we finally went to court.

They said it was touch-and-go.

It was just so... It was terrible.

We was petrified that he was gonna get off.

We was petrified.

Huge anticipation when the trial started in January 2013.

A huge media gathering,

and Jane's family were there as well.

Created a real intensity,

to see Doherty being produced in court.

Just... My stomach was doing somersaults.

I hadn't seen him in 18 years,

and he just looked the same monster that he did the last time I saw him.

You could see it in his eyes, the evilness.

Every single day, we could see him,

just sat with a big, smug, fat face he had on him.

He just did not care what he was putting us through.

It was like, as if he was dead inside.

He just had no remorse whatsoever.

- So, we just had to sit there,

listen to his absolute... crap of lies.

The prosecution suggested that Doherty was

a...obsessional and controlling person,

and that Jane was a single-minded and independent woman,

who would never have stood for that kind of control.

The circumstantial evidence clearly was:

that he was the last person to have seen her alive;

that he had lied repeatedly to the police

about his explanations of his movements;

and the cell site evidence,

which showed that he'd tried to create a false alibi.

The defence's case, basically,

was that he had dropped her off at her mother's flat nearby,

and that he had never seen her again,

and that he had no involvement with her disappearance.

The climax of the trial was a hugely intense and emotional time,

not least for Jane's family, who had waited 18 years

for this moment of justice

for the man that they believed had murdered Jane.

On the 29th January, after a three-week trial,

the jury retires to consider its verdict.

- We was in that dock - me, Claire and her children - and we ...

Our knuckles was white from, you know, the terror.

We was terrified he was gonna walk.

When the verdict is returned,

it sends shockwaves through the court.

The jury were unable to agree on the murder charge.

- The jury returned a majority verdict of ten-to-two,

saying Kevin was guilty of manslaughter.

Anyone convicted of murder, it is an automatic life sentence.

With manslaughter, you just get a fixed sentence -

and Kevin got a fixed sentence here of 12 years.

- Well, the basic common law definition of murder

requires an intention...

either to kill, or to hurt them so severely that they will die.

Manslaughter is a sort of a secondary...

form of...criminal act,

because there is no specific intention to kill -

that is the difference.

It's an absolute disgrace.

It's an insult to my sister's memory,

an absolute insult.

I came home, and I just cried and cried and cried that night.

Judge Christopher Moss told Doherty directly,

"You are the only person who knows how Jane died and where she is now,

and you're the only person who has to make the decision

whether anybody else should know."

He described this "evil secret" that Doherty had,

and he made it perfectly plain that he should tell the police

where Jane's remains were hidden,

so the family could have a proper funeral.

Despite the judge's urging,

Doherty refuses to reveal the whereabouts of Jane's body.

- And that's how nasty and horrible he is.

He will not tell us, cos he's not admitting guilt.

Five years after Doherty's conviction,

Maxine and Claire receive some further devastating news.

- We found out he was only gonna do six years.

That, to me, was the biggest kick in the teeth.

- Whatever sentence you're given,

you are entitled to a 50% reduction for good behaviour.

- We even went to the Houses of Parliament.

We've done everything in our power to keep him inside.

He was free to walk the streets of London -

regardless of what he had done in the past,

and regardless of the evil secret he still kept to himself,

to the anguish of Jane's family.

To know that someone's taken her life

and just living round the corner, happily, laughing at you, is...

You know, it's hard, it's hard.

- We're still the same now, as what we was in 1995.

Our hearts are still broke, from that day to this day -

and it will be broke all the time, until we find Jane.

I can't imagine for a moment

what this must be like for Claire and Maxine,

and also for Jane's two sons as well.

Um, to actually know that your mum has been killed,

but then not to know why, where, or where she's now laying,

I can't even begin to imagine the impact

that would have on someone.

I mean, it's a special kind of grief.

It's a special kind of grief that you get -

you just can't end it.

All we want is to bury Jane and get on with our lives.

Something for her children - your son -

to go and drop a flower on her birthday,

and something to remember her.

I will never give up looking for Jane, never.

As long as I've got a breath in me, I will never stop looking.