Victim of a Shirley Valentine murder: Jean had made a new life in Crete. Then one day she went for a drink with a local man and was never seen alive again. Now, 17 years after her body was found, her killer’s finally been convicted. Why IS he still free?

When one of Michael Porter’s brothers rang to say their mother had gone missing on the Greek island of Crete, he knew instinctively something terrible had happened.

‘My mind jumped to a worst-case scenario – I didn’t know what it was but I knew it was bad,’ he says.

Nonetheless, Michael could never have imagined that moment would mark the start of a near two-decade quest for justice that is only now approaching a resolution.

For while 53-year-old Jean Hanlon’s body was recovered from Heraklion harbour in March 2009 with head injuries and other signs of trauma, police ruled her death was a

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