My Brother the Killer: A Family Story

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We share live crime news and exclusive court stories as well as features and columns on historical cases, keeping our readers informed and updated across the country. In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, laced with bleak irony and heartrending honesty, Alix tackles these questions and confronts a harsh reality: that the younger brother he once adored not only deceived their own family for decades, but destroyed another with his truly heinous crime. Campbell claimed to have been in another part of Essex on the morning Danielle disappeared, but expert analysis of his mobile phone showed that could not be true. Of course, this isn't ever a book you could say you enjoyed, purely for the nature of the crime, but it was a captivating read which was well written.

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I loved how the author takes us back to the start of their life to examine important questions of nature vs nurture and examines the complex early life situations can form behaviours and shape future events. RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Why the hell are we stopping migrants trying to smuggle themselves OUT of Britain? Sharkey's brother didn't run around the house wielding knives; the boys and their sister had a less than idyllic upbringing, but it wasn't brutally hopeless either, thanks to their mum, and until puberty hit the brother seems to have been more or less okay.

Alix and his sister both grew up to have successful careers, Stuart entered a life of criminality at a young age. Body language expert explains Meghan Markle's 'proud reason' behind placing her hand on Prince Harry's chest. Campbell denied any involvement in her disappearance, claiming to have been in another part of Essex on the morning Danielle disappeared, but expert analysis of his mobile phone showed that could not be true. What an insightful book that didn't require the epilogue to tell us just how much it must have taken the author to reach back into the past and rake over his early life with his brother.This is the story through the eyes of Campbell’s brother Alix Sharkey, as he unpicks how his charismatic younger brother – who he once adored, turned into one of the UK’s most infamous criminals. But I realize it was the author's way of trying to find some answers in their past that could account for his brother's crimes. As I began reading this book, I tried to recollect the circumstances around Danielle's disappearance, but it wasn't until I googled her and saw her picture that I remembered her from all those years before. On 18th June 2001, Danielle Jones was abducted, sparking the largest and most expensive investigation ever mounted by Essex Police.