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Not until a police officer finds them about an hour later and escorts them out to the police car. 18 years later, Linda said she still remembers looking towards the door leading to the garden and how she saw a blood-soaked blanket covering what she only later realized was little David. The children are reunited with their mother, who takes them to stay with their aunt, Evelyn, in Wales. After a week, Janet leaves her three children behind and returns to Joseph in Newcastle. After about a month, Evelyn learns that Janet and Joseph has decided to relinquish their parental rights. To the press, Joseph and Janet says the children has been placed in boarding schools abroad for their own protection. Evelyn decides to adopt her nephew and nieces but, because she already has four children of her own, she becomes overwhelmed. A decision is made to send Eric, Linda and Della to Kildare, Ireland, to their grandparents, Rosemary and George Davenport. The three children thrive under the care of Rosie and George but they wouldn't see either of their parents again for 18 years. Life goes on for Eric, Linda and Della, who are now under the protection of their grandparents and extended family in Kildare. Their surnames, Harris, is changed to Murray to protect their identities from the press. Despite their process in school and overall life,the trauma the children had endured, had taken its toll. Rosie took notice that all three children would jump at the slightest loud noise. One time, George raised his hand to scratch his hairline and the three children reportedly cowered in fear, as if he was about to hit them. The children also suffered moments of anxiety and depression. They would often wake up in the middle of the night, screaming and crying. Rosie was horrified to think that her own daughter, who she had raised and loved, could do the things that she had done to these children. But Rosie refused to give up on them, convincing George to pay for expensive therapy sessions for all three. Things seemed to become better for the children after that, as they attended public school and behan to behave more normally. They found friends and hobbies. Della and Linda in particular enjoyed horseback riding. At her 13th birthday, George gifted Linda a chestnut thoroughbred-mare named Mauretania. A horse Linda absolutely adored and whom she competed in Cross Country riding with. At 18 years old, Eric decides to leave his family behind, becoming a merchant sailor. Rosie, George, Linda and Della would not hear from him for another 10 years. In the meantime, he ended up in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, France. He met a Valérie Gaudin, whom he later married. Linda, his sister, moved to London to study medicine. She met Andrew Stewart, whom she married in 1991 and settled down with in London. Della stayed behind in Kildare, helping her grandparents by taking care of the estate. She married Enrique Manzanares and had a son, Shawn, in 1992, but the marriage fell through and they were divorced in 1993. She later married Frank Brennan and had two more children. Linda and Della had seemingly moved on with their lives and were quite content despite everything. In 1992, Joseph's lies finally came crumbling down when a retired police officer confessed that Joseph and Janet had bribed him and the police chief constable into In dismissing his son's death as a tragic accident, even though all evidence contradicts that it was an accident. The case is re-opened after a major attention from media and a search begins for Eric, who was 10 years old at the time of the murder and is thus considered the most reliable victim. His sisters tell investigators that they have no idea of his current whereabouts. They also refuse to testify against their father, still very much afraid of him. The investigators can only hope that the media attention around the case being re-opened might lure Eric back to England. And their patience paid off. In early 1993, Eric makes a visit to his sister in London. Linda was quite shocked to see her brother on her doorstep, after all, it had been ten years since he left without a trace. But the two quickly settle their differences with one goal in mind, justice for their brother. They soon manage to get Della to agree to testify aswell. In November 1993, the case goes to trial. It is the first time in 18 years that Eric, Linda and Della stand face to face with their father and Eric stands to testify first, telling the jury how he was often beaten, starved and physically and mentally abused by both Joseph and Janet. He tells the jury that he often had to shoplift for food to feed himself and his siblings, because the parents wouldn't feed them for days on end. When his sister Linda testifies, she tells of how she was repeatedly raped by her father between the ages of five and eight and how when she went to tell her mother, Janet had grabbed her by the collar of her dress and slammed her head into a wooden table before kicking her so hard her left rib broke. The rib, left to heal on it's own, healed in such a way that it punctured Linda's lung when she was 11, requiring painful surgery. The details of the abuse led the judge to excuse herself for 20 minutes because she felt so sick she had to vomit. Della testified that while the abuse towards her wasn't as bad as it was to her older siblings, she nonetheless suffered much PTSD, anxiety and depression as she grew into her teenage years. Others who testified against Joseph was Evelyn Walsh, the children's aunt, who said that the brief time the children stayed with her, it became very evident that they had been severely neglected and abused. The night they arrived, they were covered in mites and one of the children had a nasty cough. Next, the children all testified about the night David was killed. They all said the same thing, that David had been beaten up and then thrown out the window of the family home. After a six day trial, the judge and jury declared Joseph Harris as guilty of not only murder, but neglect and severe abuse of his surviving children. He was sentenced to life in prison. Oddly enough, his wife, Janet, was never brought to court or trial though she stayed faithfully by her husband's side and swore the children were never abused and that David's murder was just a tragic accident. For Eric, Linda and Della, life could finally move on. David had gotten the justice that he should have had 18 years earlier. Eric returned to his wife and family in France while Linda herself became a mother in April 1994, and again in 1998 and 2004. Della still lives in Kildare, now owning a world renowned stud and racing farm. Her husband, Frank, dies in a tragic riding accident in 2000. George, the grandfather, died in May of 1994. Rosemary would live to be 103 before dying in 2012. Joseph died in prison in 2004 and only his wife attended his funeral. Eric died in 2018 from a heart attack None of Eric's, Linda's or Della's children would know the full extend of their heritage until they were in their early or late teens. It prompted Lynn Stewart and Shawn Murray to create a documentary in 2020, which marked the first time Linda and Della spoke publically of their ordeal.