Overview

• Two decades after Janet Brown vanished in June 2005, her remains have still not been found following her murder by partner Donald Graham
• Graham killed Brown to seize her wealth and maintained a five-year deception by forging letters and draining her bank accounts
• A 2010 alert from a Skipton Building Society clerk over mismatched signatures sparked a fraud probe that escalated into a homicide investigation
• In 2014, Newcastle Crown Court convicted Graham and sentenced him to life with a 32-year minimum term despite no body ever being recovered
• Enacted in 2021, Helen’s Law requires parole boards to consider the impact of offenders withholding victims’ whereabouts, potentially blocking Graham’s release