Sold in Secret

''1st November 2003 started so unremarkably that I wish I had appreciated the normality of it. Because I would never, ever know peace again.''

Charlene Downes was 14 when she went missing in Blackpool''s seedy underbelly. Once a happy-go-lucky schoolgirl, she had become a truant - hanging out with the wrong crowd by the takeaway shops and pier. But Charlene''s mum, Karen, always knew her typical t...