A woman whose sister murdered their elderly parents before hiding their mummified bodies in the family home for four years has revealed she forgives her sibling.
Louise Hopkins, 49, was left stunned when police called her out of the blue with fears that her parents, John and Lois McCullough, might be dead.
The couple, aged 70 and 71, had in fact been brutally murdered by their own daughter, Virginia McCullough, who kept their decomposing bodies hidden in their Chelmsford home while carrying on with life as if nothing had happened.
Virginia stashed her mother's body in a double wardrobe, and concealed her father's corpse in a makeshift tomb disguised as a bed.
Yet speaking for the first time since the devastating revelations, Louise insists she holds no hatred towards her younger sister.
