Model's horror after investigating mum's mysterious death and unanswered questions

For arsenic agelong arsenic Daniel Wing tin remember, helium has ever had his footwear container of memories. As a boy, helium would occasionally get it retired to thumb done cherished photographs of his mother.

Everything Daniel knew astir Tina Wing’s life was contained wrong that precious small box.

There was a worn code book, a poem, immoderate schoolhouse reports, cards – and her commencement and decease certificates.

Now, successful a two-part documentary, Who Murdered You, Mum? Daniel is yet sharing his profoundly idiosyncratic travel with the world.

Tina was 32 erstwhile she was murdered successful northbound London successful 1992, leaving her beloved small lad Daniel behind.

Now 33 and a palmy model, helium says: “My mum was surviving successful Friern Barnet Hospital, a intelligence wellness facility. She was determination for postnatal slump and rehabilitation.

“On her archetypal time going retired for an unescorted walk, her assemblage was found. She had been stabbed aggregate times and strangled.”

Tina’s assemblage was discovered adjacent a bin country successful the infirmary grounds.

“She was expected to beryllium connected this walk, but ne'er returned,” Daniel says. “Four hours later, idiosyncratic recovered her body.

“That breaks my heart. Why didn’t anyone look for her?

“Tina, Mother, Mummy… I ne'er got to telephone her immoderate of these things. She ne'er got maine to talk a word.”

Raised by his grandma Lily Wing successful Tottenham, northbound London, Daniel enjoyed a puerility afloat of love.

“My upbringing was incredible,” Daniel says. “I was raised by an astonishing pistillate – my nan – but I always

knew I was different. I was ever alert of that.

“I was told my mum had died and thing had happened to her, but it was each precise PG.”

Daniel was 10 erstwhile helium learned the information astir his mother’s death, but the value of the alarming cognition took years to descend in.

“I was numb to it astatine the time,” Daniel says. “After they explained it, my aunt remembered maine conscionable asking, ‘Can I spell play now?’ I was conscionable a kid, detached from the loss.”

As helium grew older, Daniel, who has modelled for make-up marque Charlotte Tilbury, yearned for answers.

When helium turned 32 – the property Tina was erstwhile she died – helium yet felt acceptable to research what had happened and inquire household members the hard questions they had ever avoided.

But what makes Daniel’s communicative adjacent much tragic is that determination was lone 1 idiosyncratic ever investigated implicit his mum’s execution – his dad.

“He was enactment connected proceedings and recovered not guilty,” Daniel says. “He denied being anyplace adjacent the country of the crime.”

During the documentary, Daniel talks to members of the Metropolitan Police to effort and recognize wherefore his begetter Keith* was acquitted.

Keith – whose afloat individuality is withheld successful the programme – was Tina’s archetypal boyfriend, who she was said to person dated due to the fact that of his persistence, contempt him initially giving her “the creeps”.

Tina’s older sister Lesley, 68, recalls however Tina adjacent jumped from her flat’s first-floor balcony successful a bid to flight him and ended up fracturing her skull.

In the documentary, Lesley says: “When I went to the hospital, I asked her astir it and she was, like, ‘I conscionable wanted to get distant from him. He wouldn’t fto maine out. I conscionable wanted to get away’. I deliberation helium was controlling her.”

Despite this, the mates got engaged and Tina became pregnant.

From the outside, things appeared to beryllium going good but 1 day, caller mum Tina was recovered walking the streets barefoot successful conscionable a nightdress successful the mediate of winter.

She was taken to a constabulary station, wherever Keith told them Tina had tried to acceptable occurrence to the cot, which she denied. Her sister remains sceptical astir the claim. Lesley says of Tina: “She wasn’t a smoker, she didn’t person matches… it conscionable didn’t adhd up.”

Tina was detained connected remand astatine Holloway situation and past moved to Friern Barnet Hospital, wherever she started increasing a beard – showing she had a hormone imbalance.

After treatment, she improved drastically and told the authorities she wanted to absorption connected her lad and not spot Keith immoderate more.

Soon afterwards, she was recovered dead.

At Keith’s trial, witnesser testimonies were recovered to beryllium inconsistent.

One idiosyncratic believed they saw Keith adjacent the infirmary connected the time of the murder, portion different said it mightiness person been the time before. Then, humor recovered connected Tina’s covering couldn’t beryllium tested for DNA owed to the limitations of the time.

“I consciousness similar my parent was fto down,” Daniel says.

“She wasn’t the ‘perfect victim’ owed to her struggles but I don’t privation her to beryllium forgotten. She has been forgotten for 32 years.”

Daniel had ever thought his

dad had died – but the documentary reveals helium is successful information live and good and went connected to wed and person 2 much children.

This is thing Daniel recovered peculiarly difficult, arsenic Keith had ne'er tried to interaction him.

“Why isn’t helium warring to get justness for the parent of his child?” helium says. “It is strange.”

Daniel has had connection with the police, who are looking for caller grounds to reopen the case. “The constabulary request compelling grounds to determination forwards,” helium says. “I’m hoping idiosyncratic mightiness travel forward.

“If anyone you cognize was astatine the hospital, whether arsenic a diligent oregon staff, and saw something, delight talk up.”

Although helium has nary tendency to conscionable Keith, who declined to remark for the documentary, Daniel says the amusement has made him consciousness person to his mum.

“I cognize the places she visited. She went to Mallorca, and I worked determination too. She worked successful Selfridges, and I did a run for Charlotte Tilbury that was successful Selfridges,” helium says.

Another moving find was a paper sent by 1 of Tina’s friends to Daniel’s grandmother, expressing however overmuch she had wanted him. “Her person wrote, ‘She desperately wanted a babe and kept asking maine to person 1 truthful we could walk our days together’,” Daniel says. “It was rather bully to person that confirmation that she wanted a baby. It wasn’t agelong agone that I asked my auntie if I was a rape child, truthful that meant everything to me.”

For Daniel, the documentary is astir much than conscionable answers – it’s astir healing and hope.

“Grief is simply a idiosyncratic journey,” helium says. “It’s casual to get stuck successful it, but you inactive person your ain beingness to unrecorded and I wanted to springiness anticipation to others.

“When idiosyncratic is murdered, it creates a ripple effect that touches

so galore people. It’s important to enactment each different and radiance a airy connected these stories. I privation to radiance a airy for different victims and families who are coming done this, oregon conscionable feeling similar they’ve had to suppress that dependable oregon hunt for answers. No 1 wants to beryllium portion of the nine of radical with murdered women successful their family. But it’s inactive happening a batch and it’s not taken seriously.”

Today, Daniel feels person than ever to his mother. After years of keeping her photos hidden successful the box, helium displays them astir his home.

“For truthful long, I didn’t person pictures up,” helium says. “Now I person started to enactment photos of her connected the walls and I tin spot her from antithetic angles. I americium decidedly starting to spot myself inher, which I ne'er saw before.”

* Not his existent name

• Who Murdered You, Mum? Will be connected Monday 25th November astatine 9pm connected Crime + Investigation.