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'Hope u die': Horrific secret messages that helped convict monster boyfriend who hounded mother of two to suicide - and the haunting reason police may have initially failed to act By Jenny Johnston for the Daily Mail Published: 11:56 EDT, 30 May 2024 | Updated: 11:56 EDT, 30 May 2024 e-mail View comments Caitlin Hannaway thought it would be her final sisterly duty, clearing out the clothes of the big sister she had idolised. Less than a month before Demi had taken her own life at the home she shared with her partner and two children, the youngest just a few weeks old, and Caitlin was still in shock after the sudden, unexpected death. She reached under the bed for yet another pair of shoes.

'Demi loved her heels,' she says. Then she noticed something else. 'It was Demi's phone, the one dad had bought her,' Caitlin, now 24, recalls.



'It was bright red, her favourite colour, and she always had it with her. But it was all smashed.' Caitlin stood, baffled.

As she tells me: 'Why would her phone be smashed? And why was it under the bed?' Demi Hannaway took her own life at her home in Lanarkshire in 2021 after being in an abusive relationship This month Demi's partner Andrew Brown, the father of her girls, was convicted of abusing her That a can of worms that phone opened. To this day, three years on, the Hannaway family haven't been able to access the contents, but the questions raised by its discovery took them on a terrible journey. It led, eventually, to a courtroom where, earlie.

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