UK News 20-09-2002 Milly`s Mum: We Know She Is Dead who: Amanda `Milly` Dowler what: Is almost certainly dead, says her mother where: WALTON ON THAMES when: Yesterday snippet: "I think she`s been abducted and murdered," says the mother of 13 year-old Amanda `Milly` Dowler in an interview with ITV`s Tonight with Trevor McDonald, quoted in The Mirror. "I`ve been through every possible scenario and played them through time and time again. But that`s the only one I seem to end up at." Milly was last seen six months ago on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. The interview, to be broadcast this evening, coincides with the discovery of a human skull, found in woodland in Yateley Heath Forest near Fleet, Hampshire. Surrey police have been called to the scene but are so far playing down the significance of the find. "The not knowing is awful because there`s still that element of doubt," Sally Dowler goes on. "Has someone taken her, but is she still alive? As unlikely as you know that is, you can`t help thinking `Oh please let that be the case`." In a separate interview with the Daily Mail`s Rebecca Hardy, published by the paper`s online spin-off Femail, Mrs Dowler discusses the treasured memory of making the familiar home video - seen by millions following her disappearance - in which Milly is seen ironing her favourite baggy jeans. "I just had to get the video camera and film her because it was the first time Milly had ever done any ironing," she says. "There was a CD on and she was dancing away. Her sister Gemma was cooking tea in the kitchen, which was unusual as well. As I videoed them they were taking the mickey out of me, saying I was sad..." [... more]

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