People you knew who were murdered or suicided

[Jacques]

Rumour has it you look like Penfold.

[Deano!]

I was pen-pals with a girl who was murdered by her ex husband. We'd been friends for over 10 years but had never met.

I had sent her a birthday card and letter which was pretty light hearted and silly. A few days later her mum wrote back and said that her daughter had been stabbed many times by her maniac ex husband and died. I was standing up as I began reading the letter, but was on the floor by the end.

That was 8 years ago, and even though I have a whole heap of her old letters and photos, I haven't been able to look at them since.