She was not one of those women who could put such fears to the back of her mind; instead she dwelled on them. The thought of losing her children consumed her in a way that only a mother can be affected by the loss of a child; she felt that no one understood. Charlotte had been remanded in custody to Mountjoy Prison because she broke the conditions of her bail. She had stopped signing on at the nominated Garda Station. Linda had been given her freedom. It was during this time, in the weeks before the trial, that she descended into a deeper depression. It should be noted that her mother, Kathleen, had since left Ireland. She had moved to Britain, where she had begun a new life in Birmingham; then she had vanished without trace. Linda hadn’t broken the conditions of her bail, but there were times when she wanted to. Instead, she drank and took more drugs to escape from the life that offered her no peace and to ease the pain that swelled inside her heart.
