JEKYLL AND HYDE
Lydia Wilkinson was in her university halls of residence on the morning of March 30, 2017, when her phone rang. The 19-year-old biology student had only been an undergraduate for six months and was living in Bristol, an hour and a half’s drive south from her beloved home.
She had seen her family the previous weekend for Mother’s Day, and she was due to return to the West Midlands to pick her 13-year-old brother up from school and go dress shopping with her mom.
The call was from Lydia’s boyfriend. He asked her if she had heard there had been a knife attack in her home town.
“I remember typing into Google ‘Stourbridge, stabbings,’” she would tell reporters later, “and the first link showed a photo of my house with police tape around it. I remember ringing him [my boyfriend] back and saying, ‘It’s me, it’s us, they’ve been stabbed.’”
Helplessly, desperately, her thoughts were of her mother Tracey, her father Peter and her schoolboy brother Pierce.
She managed to call West Midlands Police, who told the frantic daughter that every member of her family had been attacked. They confirmed her worst fears: her mom and brother were dead. Her father was
