The Bill Preview ‘Forgotten Child: Part I’

Epsiode 644 DCs Jo Masters and Mickey Webb are called to investigate the death of a teenage girl, from a suspected heroin overdose. Jo recognises her as Kelly Porterfield, a girl she previously arrested for soliciting, and has the daunting task of telling Kellys distraught mother Helen. Helen tells Jo that Kelly had run away from home a year before, with her boyfriend Andy Donnelly. When Jo discovers that the fingerprints on the needle found in Kelly did not belong her, she realises that this is now a murder investigation. Jo and Mickey question Andy at his flat and find him living with fourteen-year-old Jen Kilshaw, who claims shes older. Andy tells the officers that Jen is just a friend and that he and Kelly broke up several months ago. As the case develops, Jo discovers that Andy got Kelly hooked on drugs so he could control her and worries that he could be doing the same to Jen. Jo visits Jen again and finding her alone, tries to make her see that Andy is bad news. Jen tells Jo that she lives in a residential unit that she doesnt want to go back to and tells the officer how much she and Andy love one another. Back at the station, Jo is told that the fingerprints found on the needle that ultimately killed Kelly belong to Jake Clegg, a name that has cropped up throughout the investigation. Jo and Mickey realise that Kellys death is part of a much bigger operation and they are looking at a national network of trafficking underage girls, somehow involving Andy and Jake …