Seared into Trijntje’s memory is the click of the front door closing as her 14-year-old daughter, Tamar, crept out of the house in the middle of the night.
It was just after 1am and Tamar had taken the key from her school bag to slip out of the family’s home in the idyllic island village of Marken, half an hour’s drive from Amsterdam.
Two hours later the girl was dead, her body lying in a dyke beside a six-mile-long road leading to the nearby town of Monnickendam as her parents frantically searched for her.
This week, Tamar’s tragic death gained attention across the
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