Convicted child abuser found guilty of brutally murdering Nikki Allan, more than 30 years ago
A convicted child abuser has been found guilty of brutally murdering a seven-year-old girl more than 30 years ago.
Prosecutors told Newcastle Crown Court she was then "dumped like rubbish" in a derelict building near her home. Jurors had heard Boyd, then aged 25, was a neighbour of Nikki's at the Wear Garth flats in the east end of Sunderland and his partner had been the girl's babysitter.He was also familiar with the abandoned Old Exchange building and knew how to get inside through a broken, boarded-up window.and he bore a "striking resemblance" to a man seen with Nikki shortly before her death, prosecutors said.
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