The victim of a hammer attack in which her mother and sister were killed has announced that she is to marry. Josie Russell, now 30, was nine when her mother Lin, 45, and sister Megan, six, were murdered on a country lane in Kent by Michael Stone as they returned home from a school swimming gala in July 1996. Police assumed that Ms Russell, who had serious head injuries, had also died until they detected a faint pulse. Ms Russell, now a textile artist, is engaged to Iwan Griffith, 31, her boyfriend of 12 years, who proposed on Christmas morning last year. She told the Daily Mail: “Iwan gave me chocolates and said, ‘Sorry,…

Source: The Times August 27, 2017 23:26 UTC