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  • 11/10/2023
The story of the three-decade hunt for the killer of Sunderland schoolgirl Nikki Allan is available to view at www.shotstv.com and on Freeview channel 276, along with other true crime documentary features from around the North East and the UK.
Transcript
00:00 It's the evening of October 7th 1992 and Nikki has been to visit her grandparents.
00:05 She sets out on the short walk home down a stairwell, the last time she's seen alive.
00:09 The worst fears the community realised the following day, here, in the then derelict
00:14 Quayside Exchange building.
00:15 We're part of the team that's reinvestigating the murder of Nikki Allen.
00:22 Yeah.
00:23 Ok?
00:24 The first investigation, they focused on George Herron.
00:26 The interviews that were conducted back in the day were oppressive.
00:30 I've had to read and hear malicious lies being spread about me and my family.
00:33 This is the story of the murder of Nikki Allen and how killer David Boyd was finally convicted.
00:39 He was not going to admit the offence.
00:40 He was not going to admit what he'd done.
00:43 [MUSIC PLAYING]

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