Tell us where Mum’s body is, daughter begs twisted killer
THE daughter of pensioner Sylvia Stuart yesterday pleaded with her ‘twisted’ killer to reveal where he had hidden her body.
Christy Paxman, 42, said she hoped Vital Dapi would one day have the ‘moral courage’ to reveal where her mother’s remains were and give her family some peace after the ‘senseless’ murders of her parents.
Mother-of-one Mrs Paxman reported Mrs Stuart, 69, and her father, Peter Stuart, 75, missing last May, after they had failed to turn up at their line dancing club.
Mr Stuart, a retired Tate & Lyle sugar factory worker, and his wife were last seen alive on May 29 when they were filmed on CCTV visiting Goodies farm shop in Pulham Market near Diss, Norfolk – six miles from their home.
Police eventually found Mr Stuart’s bat- tered body on June 3, face-down in a ditch and hidden under a tarpaulin, 50ft from the cottage he had renovated himself after retiring to the country a few years earlier.
But Mrs Stuart’s body has not been recov- ered despite a massive search by police who followed 900 lines of inquiry.
Dapi was charged with both murders after Mrs Stuart’s hairs were found in his abandoned car after he fled abroad.
Mrs Paxman and her husband Steven, who had lived next door to the Stuarts in Suffolk before moving to Leicestershire, gasped with relief when the guilty verdicts were announced at Ipswich Crown Court.
Mrs Paxman, 42, said outside court: ‘To the twisted individual who committed this wicked crime, we hope you spend the rest of your miserable existence reflecting on the utter senselessness and brutality of what you did to two innocent people.’
She added: ‘Maybe one day you will find the moral courage to tell us where Mum is so we can give her and our family some final peace.’