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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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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