Season 6 - Episode 26

DESCRIPTION: 

The high pitched sound of the home telephone echoed through the Neailey household. Liz Neailey answered. Someone from her son's school was on the other end of the line. It was June 5, 1998. The staff member told Liz her son, Wesley, had not been feeling well and needed to come home…  

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Court documents, books and information from the following news organisations were referenced in this episode: Chronicle Live, BBC News, The Sun, Telegraph, The Guardian, Northern Echo, Irish Times, Herald Scotland, Daily Mail, Aberdeen Evening Express, Aberdeen Press and Journal, Irish Independent, Birmingham Mail, The Sun, The Scotsman, Durham County Publications and The Sunday Mirror.

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MUSIC: 

Azure by Alice In Winter

The Last by Wild Wonder 

Reverencia by Alice In Winter

In Reverse by Wild Wonder

Wilderness by Wild Wonder

Sleep by Stephen Keech

Sussex by Stephen Keech 

Endgame by Alice In Winter 

The Part Where They Love Each Other by Stephen Keech 

The Part Where They Got Into A Fight by Stephen Keech 

Fable by Stephen Keech


REFERENCES: 

DIGITAL ARTICLES

CHRONICLE LIVE

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/how-schoolboy-wesley-neaileys-murder-14616190 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/grandad-murdered-11-year-old-wesley-neailey-1944575 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/wesleys-murderer-accuses-top-officer-1679632 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/united-in-their-grief-1580177 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/son-no-conscience-just-pure-1681806 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/fury-sex-fiend-escapes-jail-1685382 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/life-sentence-should-mean-1559809 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tears-flow-wesley-six-years-1619793 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/ex-detective-tells-fears-over-14779905 

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tears-flow-wesley-six-years-1619793  

THE SUN

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/8691581/mum-of-11-year-old-son-murdered-by-paedo-reveals-she-never-saw-her-little-boys-body-because-it-had-been-eaten-by-animals/  

BBC NEWS

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/388530.stm 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/387461.stm 

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-44724646 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3596950.stm 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/402188.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/402059.stm 

TELEGRAPH 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1362454/Child-killer-errors-continue.html 

THE GUARDIAN 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/nov/15/childprotection.society 

NORTHERN ECHO 

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7115326.prison-officer-suspended-killers-sex-allegation/ 

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/6953914.centre-crime-victims-backed/ 

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7130380.boy-victims-family-plan-sue-police/ 

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/7062662.your-life-never-again/ 

IRISH TIMES 

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/music-student-guilty-of-raping-and-murdering-boy-had-conviction-1.209951 

HERALD SCOTLAND 

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12279116.review-of-sex-offence-loophole-under-way-as-murdering-student-starts-two-life-sentences-killer-paedophile-jailed/ 

PRESS READER 

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-chronicle-9c96/20180614/281505046926384 

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-star-sunday/20180114/281663960412584 

 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Two+worlds+collide+in+tragedy%3b+In+our+series+of+notorious+crimes+on...-a0314187622 

PARLIAMENT DOCS 

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/written-answers/1999/nov/11/dominic-mckilligan 

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/2001/nov/21/young-offenders-units 

NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES

Daily Mirror - Wednesday 07 July 1999

Aberdeen Evening Express, 6th July 1998  

Aberdeen Press and Journal, 7th July 1998

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 21 July 1999

Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 24 July 1999 

Irish Independent - Saturday 24 July 1999

Aberdeen Evening Express - Saturday 24 July 1999

Daily Mirror - Tuesday 07 July 1998

Daily Mirror - Saturday 24 July 1999

Aberdeen Evening Express, 8th June 1998 

Aberdeen Press and Journal, 18th June 1998

Aberdeen Evening Express, 17th June 1998

Daily Mirror, 18th June 1998 

Daily Mirror, 8th June 1998

The Guardian, 24 Jul 1999

The Guardian, 15 Nov 2001

The Guardian, 6th July 1998

The Independent, 7 June, 1998

The Sunday Mirror, 8 June, 1998

The Sunday Mirror, 18 June, 1998

The Sun, 8 June, 1998

The Times, 26 June, 1998

The Sunday Mirror, 27 June, 1998

The Sunday Mirror, 6 July, 1998

Birmingham Mail, 6 July, 1998

The Independent, 7 July, 1998

The Sunday Mirror, 7 July, 1999

Birmingham Mail, 7 July, 1999

The Sun, 7 July, 1999

Western Daily Press, 7 July, 1999

Birmingham Mail, 8 July, 1999

The Sun, 8 July, 1999

Coventry Telegraph, 24 July, 1999  

Daily Mail, 24 July, 1999

The Sunday Mirror, 24 July, 1999

The Sunday Mail, 24 July, 1999

The Guardian, 24 July, 1999

The Independent, 24 July, 1999

Irish Times, 24 July, 1999

The Scotsman, 24 July, 1999

The Sun, 24 July, 1999

The Sun, 27 July, 1999

The Northern Echo, 13 October, 1999

The Northern Echo, 13 March, 2000

Durham County Publications, 18 September, 2000

Durham County Publications, 13 March, 2001

The Sunday Mirror, 7 May, 2001

Cornwall County Publications, 15 November, 2001

Daily Mail, 15 November, 2001

Durham County Publications, 15 November, 2001

The Northern Echo, 27 March, 2002

Durham County Publications, 20 August, 2002

Durham County Publications, 3 May, 2004 

Evening Chronicle, 8 January, 2013

BOOKS

Sex, Work and Sex Work: Eroticizing Organization By Joanna Brewis, Stephen Linstead 

REPORTS / REVIEWS

https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2001/11/15/communication-breakdowns-in-young-paedophile-murder-case-could-be-repeated/  

 

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