Murder of Hannah Williams

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On 21 April 2001, Hannah Williams (born May 1986), a 14-year-old English schoolgirl, was murdered after going missing during a shopping trip in Dartford, Kent. Williams's body was discovered on 15 March 2002 at a cement works in an industrial area of Northfleet. Robert Howard, a convicted sex offender suspected of other murders including in his native Ireland, was convicted in 2003 and sentenced to life in prison for her murder. The disappearance and murder of Williams was controversial due to how poorly the investigation of the case was handled and the little coverage that her disappearance had, with allegations of missing white woman syndrome. Some authors compared Williams' case to that of Danielle Jones, a schoolgirl who disappeared in Essex, two months after Williams. It was suggested that Jones received more coverage than Williams because Jones was a middle-class girl with a functional home life, while Williams was from a lower-class background with estranged parents.

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