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Some of the relatives of the victims have been speaking about the young women they remember.

A father's tale

Jim Duell is the father of 19 year old Tania Nichol. Mr Duell and Tania's mother Kerry Nichol knew their daughter was a drug-user, but they didn't know she was working on the streets as a prostitute.

He remembers her disappearance on 30 October 2006: "At first we weren't too concerned because we thought she'd be out with friends or down at Bluewater shopping centre in Kent.

"You think of all different things like maybe she's had an overdose or something. That was the worst we could think of.

"Of course, after a week we all started to get really, really worried. She would always phone her mother, but as soon as she went missing she never called in.

"We were hoping and hoping, but after three weeks we were thinking something serious has happened - somebody has sorted her out. You just don't go missing like this. I didn't hold out much hope, quite honestly."

My sister

Anneli Alderton's brother Tom has been remembering his sister: "Half the time you'd get the sweet little Annie that we all knew, but she was one of these people who could blend in very well with others which is why she did so well when she went out to Cyprus.

Tom says his sister was determined to get her life back on track after she had a son:"The problem then wasn't the drugs so much as facing life without drugs. She'd do fantastically well and then cave under the pressure and it would only take a few days for things to go horribly wrong again."

Anneli was jailed three times for theft and released as homeless. Tom said: "At the time she wasn't a drug addict and she wasn't a prostitute. She was just getting money for Christmas.

"Then we didn't hear from her for a couple of days and then they found her body."

Anneli seemed to get into drugs after her father Roy died of lung cancer. Paula Clennell's sister Alice watched her sibling drift into drugs as well: "She was very soft, a vulnerable person and easily-led if she thought she could get a laugh out of it.

"I saw her about seven months before she died. A car beeped, but I didn't recognise anyone. She jumped out and said 'oh, you don't even recognise your own sister' and I was a bit taken aback because I hadn't seen her for a while.

Paula Clennell

"I was pregnant and she was fussing over my belly and she said she'd give me a call. She hugged me stroked my face, which was quite upsetting because I knew she was into drugs and it would be quite a while before I would see her again.

"She got in with the wrong crowd, but deep down I know she didn't want that life."

Some solace in faith

Tania's father Jim Duell has been left devastated by the knowledge that his daughter had been so deeply hooked on drugs that she resorted to prostitution: "That was almost as much of a shock as finding out she'd gone missing.

"If drugs can make you go and do something as desperate as standing on the streets at night...."

Mr Duell used his faith to help him deal with the news that his daughter's body had been found:听 "I'm a born-again Christian. I'd been assured that she was OK. I was worried about her soul.

"When I went out for a walk I asked the Lord again is she really okay and I got the assurance again and it was like I was walking on air.

"That's what I was more concerned about and I thank God for that."

Anneli Alderton's brother Tom had this parting thought: "It helps everyone come to terms with it if they think sex-worker/drug addict, but nobody's anything 24 hours a day.

"Most of the time in those girls lives they were neither of those things."