You may have already read what happened to my 13-year-old son Olly Stephens. On 3 January 2021, he left our family home in Reading, Berkshire, and wandered to a nearby field, just three minutes’ walk

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As I sat on the sofa with Dad, eating sweets, my eyes drifted to the walls. ‘Why do you have so many pictures of the devil?’ I asked. ‘I think it’s cool,’ Dad shrugged. It was 2007 and even at six, I

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