Family pleads to help solve teen's murder 30 years on

The family of a 17-year-old girl with the "kindest of hearts" who was brutally murdered 30 years ago have issued a desperate appeal to finally catch her killer.

- AMY-CLARE MARTIN

Sabrina Brett's mother died "heartbroken" knowing her daughter's killer had never been punished after the teenager's naked body was found in a Milton Keynes canal on 11 May 1995. Post-mortem examinations revealed she had died a number of days before she was found at Three Locks, Stoke Hammond, having suffered injuries to her head, face and neck. Sabrina, who grew up 22 miles away in Luton, had been the victim of child sexual exploitation in the months leading up to her murder.

Speaking out before tomorrow’s 30th anniversary of her death, Sabrina’s brother, Joseph, said: “Sabrina was just 17 years old when she was brutally murdered and taken from us in the most horrific way back in 1995. She was so bright and cheeky and full of life. She had an infectious energy that could fill a room and light it up from corner to corner. She had the kindest of hearts and always put others first, and like any teenager, [was] still figuring out who she was. Sabrina was a daughter, a sister, a young girl who never got the future she deserved.