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It must be every parent’s nightmare – their cherished teenage son is tried and convicted of murder. Back in 1921 Harold Jones was a 15 year old, hard working shop assistant in the Welsh mining town of Abertillery so when he was arrested for the murder of two young girls, it shook the close-knit community to the core.

Did Jeannie Donald murder Helen Priestly back in 1934? Was the forensic evidence available at the time sufficient to convict Jeannie of the crime? Had it been purely an accident?

On 21 April 1934, 8 year old Helen Priestly was sent from her home in Urquhart Street, Aberdeen, to the corner shop by her mother to buy a loaf of bread. It was one of the things that most children throughout the United Kingdom at that time were asked to do and the children seldom came to harm but on this particular occasion a trip to the corner shop proved fatal for Helen.