Leah Croucher went missing after leaving her family home to go to work on February 15, 2019, but her body was not found for three years.
A teenager’s martial arts expertise may have led to her death at the hands of a sex offender, according to an inquest held five years after she was killed. Leah Croucher went missing after leaving her family home to go to work on February 15, 2019.
Her mum and dad last saw their teenage daughter at their home at 10pm the night before, on February 14. She had told them she was going out to meet a friend earlier that evening, but police later discovered that wasn't the case. Three witnesses reported seeing a woman of her description on her mobile by the lake, the first said between 9.30am and 10am. The two other witnesses said she was "visibly upset, crying and angry" between 10am and 10.15am.
Top news stories today It wasn't until October 2022 that police received a phone call from a maintenance worker, who had been trying to eradicate a smell in the property, alerting them to potential evidence at a house on Loxbeare Drive, Milton Keynes - just minutes from where Leah was last seen. At the time of Leah's disappearance, Maxwell, who had convictions of sexual offences against women and children, was on the run in connection with a sexual assault in Newport Pagnell in November 2018.
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