Sold in Secret: A mother’s desperate search to find the men who trafficked and killed her daughter Audiobook (Free)

‘1st November 2003 began so unremarkably that I wish I put appreciated the normality from it. Because I would never, ever understand peace once again.’

Charlene Downes was 14 when she went missing in Blackpool’s seedy underbelly. Once a happy-go-lucky schoolgirl, she acquired become a truant – getting together with the wrong crowd with the takeaway shops and pier. But Charlene’s mum, Karen, often knew her typical teenage daughter would come home.

Until one day she didn’t.

Karen has been searching for 15 years, campaigning for the reality of what happened to her girl. To this day, Karen and her family members have no body, no convictions and no answers. Arrests were made and a murder trial took place, but no one has ever been brought to justice.

Around the 15th anniversary of Charlene’s disappearance, Karen shares this heartbreaking account of every parent’s worst headache.