Nicole Hanns

A little girl who has always affected me deeply because she shares my name, she was almost the same age as me and she was killed just a few streets from where my grandparents lived, where I often stayed as a child. One of those cases where you think ‘That could have been me.’ It’s also been important to me as the man who killed little Nicole was released from prison in 1999, to my and the public’s absolute horror.

Nicole was just 5 years old when a man broke into her bedroom and killed her as she slept, in Greystanes, Sydney in 1974.