I have not forgiven her and I am not required to and I am not going to pretend that I think she is the worst person in this account, because she is not, and she is the only one of them who ever said a true sentence without being cornered into it.

Maya Beltran, who was six, has said one thing about Grace Abergavenny that has been reported to me second-hand and that I am including because it is in the public record of a sentencing hearing.

She said: “She was nice.

She was nice and she didn’t let me go home.”

The judge quoted that sentence back when she imposed the twelve years.

Part Sixteen: Claudia