A police officer left traumatised after discovering the body of a teenage girl she knew who had been brutally murdered, has said the horror left her feeling suicidal.
PC Hannah Briggs, of Hampshire police, was called to the murder scene of the youngster who had been savagely beaten before being set on fire and dumped.
At the time, PC Briggs was only a trainee police officer and was sent to guard the crime scene. She had known the young victim 'very well' before joining the police.
The teen had been killed 13 days earlier, with her body dumped in woodland in Hampshire after being defiled by her killer.
The horror of what PC Briggs saw when she arrived left her profoundly impacted - and almost drove her to killing herself.
