It was on a sunny July day in 1996, that Lin Russell and her daughters Josie, 9, and Megan, 6, were the victims of a frenzied attack as they walked along a quiet country lane in Kent, on their way back from a school swimming gala in the village of Chillenden. They were blindfolded, tied to a tree with strips of Josie’s towel, and bludgeoned with a hammer by Michael Stone (top inset) in a pitiless crime that appalled Britain. Lin, 45, and Megan died at the scene, alongside their pet dog, Lucy. Police and paramedics assumed Josie was dead, too – until a faint pulse was found. She’d sustained catastrophic head injuries but she somehow survived. Now, aged 30 (pictured right), and bearing a striking resemblance to her mother Lin (pictured bottom inset), she’s a successful textile artist who has just announced her engagement to her boyfriend of 12 years, Iwan Griffith (shown left).
