Not long before midnight on 18 April last year, Donna Rogers got a phone call from her daughter’s boyfriend, Stuart Roberts. The couple had broken up and, following an argument at the pub, he was walking home alone.
The 43-year-old told her through gritted teeth, Donna recalls, though she’s sure it was just strong but empty words, said in the heat of the moment: “I’m sorry, Don, I know she’s your daughter, but I’m going to kill her.”
That night 25-year-old Shannon Beirne fell to her death from the window of her 13th-floor flat in Lansdowne Court, a tower block in Easton where she lived with Stuart. He was there, and a neighbour heard him shouting at her just before she fell.