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How a Facebook Password Trapped A Killer

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The Lucy McHugh Murder   13-Year-old Lucy McHugh was stabbed 27 times and dumped in woodlands at Southampton Sports Centre in Hampshire, England An evil killer, 25-year-old Stephen Nicholson killed Lucy McHugh on July 25th, 2018 in order to stop her from exposing the dreadful abuse that she had suffered at his hands. At his trial at Winchester Crown Court, evil Nicholson was found guilty of three counts of rape against his 13-year-old victim. The trial judge Mrs. Justice May said that Lucy had "Unknown promise that was cruelly obliterated" by Nicholson, She referred to him as "Totally depraved". The arrest of the predator sparked a massive search for evidence, which included some 11,000 hours of CCTV footage being meticulously examined by expert officers, but it was actually a Facebook password that proved to be the ultimate piece of evidence and was ultimately Nicholson's undoing. The 25-year-old had been the police's prime suspect from the outset of the in