00:00Machyn Lleth. Now, April, we will all remember, was five years ago.
00:05When she was abducted and murdered in 2012.
00:10The killer is serving a whole life sentence, but for Coral, the sentence did not...
00:15...bring an end to her suffering. As she said, my little girl...
00:20...is still missing in the eyes of the law.
00:24The funeral took place...
00:25...but the coffin was almost empty.
00:29Inside were only a...
00:30...with a few small pieces of bone and some personal items that Coral placed there.
00:35Her self.
00:37There was no body to lay to rest.
00:40There was no real goodbye.
00:43And Coral has spoken about avoiding her...
00:45...in her daughter's grave.
00:46Because she knows April is not truly there.
00:51Instead, she has created a garden at home.
00:53A place where she can feel close to her.
00:55To her child.
00:56Because the law cannot give her that peace.
01:00She lives every day with the knowledge of what was done to her daughter's body after death.
01:05Knowledge that continues to haunt her.
01:08It shapes her grief.
01:10And damages her health.
01:13And the offences that her daughter's killer was...
01:15...convicted of do not reflect the true horror.
01:20...of what he did.
01:22And Coral conveyed to me last night that she...
01:25...supports the creation of a new offence of desecrating a body.
01:30Because while her daughter's killer will never be released...
01:33...others will be.
01:35And families should not be forced to live with this added...
01:39...added...
01:40...unrecognised and unnamed in law.
01:45Now Coral's words are simple and devastating.
01:49I still...
01:50...want to put April to rest properly.
01:54And now...
01:55...now to...
01:56...the words of Leslie.
01:57As I said...
01:58...who's sitting in the gallery.
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