Ababy boy, tragically dead. A British au pair, accused of his murder. Even now, 25 years on from the tragic death of Matthew Eappen, everyone still remembers the name Louise Woodward.
It is, therefore, not surprising that Channel 4 have chosen to mark the anniversary with a three-part series about the case.
Louise was just 18 years old and from a sleepy town called Elton in Chester when she flew to America for a gap year in the Summer of 1996. According to friends, she loved to travel and enjoyed going to the theatre.
She arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, and by November she’d been employed by doctors, Sunil and Deborah Eappen. They had two sons, Brendan, then almost three, and Matthew, eight months.
‘They were adorable,’ Louise later said. ‘Brendan…
