It was on a sunny July day in 1996, that Lin Russell and her daughters Josie, 9, and Megan, 6, (pictured together, right) 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 (right 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 main), and bearing a striking resemblance to her mother Lin (pictured left inset), she's a successful textile artist who has just announced her engagement to her boyfriend of 12 years, Iwan Griffith (shown left). Josie says that as her friends have settled down and started having children, it's 'inevitable that my thoughts have turned to whether we should too'.
