Northumbria Police initially prosecuted Nikki's neighbour George Heron but he was cleared of murder in 1993. The force said it was "sorry for the mistakes" it had made before Boyd was eventually ...

Nikki's mother Sharon Henderson said she had ... police in 1992 from an artist's sketch Detectives initially accused George Heron, another neighbour in the Wear Garth flats, of the murder but ...

He was in his early 20s and lived in the same block of flats as Nikki and her family. At the time the police focussed their investigations on an entirely innocent man – George Heron – who was ...