Losing a child is every parent's nightmare and the mother of murdered schoolgirl, Zoe Evans, has already been through enough without her daughter's killer dragging up the past again.

Miles Evans has shown absolutely no remorse for killing his nine-year-old step-daughter and has continued to try to regain his freedom.

This week's appeal was his second attempt.

When Zoe went missing he even delivered an emotional appeal on TV for her return, knowing as he did it that the child's body had been stuffed into a badger sett only 400 metres from her home.

He has failed to get his conviction over-turned and Zoe's mother will not be the only one to greet this news with relief.

Zoe's death at the hands of a man who should have loved and protected her, not harmed her, shocked the nation.

Her disappearance sparked the biggest police hunt for a missing child ever seen in Britain.

The investigation and the trial were high profile and Zoe's mother, Paula Appleton, must have been through hell.

Let's hope that now Evans' appeal has failed it will bring this chapter to a close and bring some peace of mind to Mrs Appleton and the rest of her family.