Top: This was taken on the day of Rachel’s baptism at our house in Ireland in April 1981. Rachel was three months old and is with, left to right, Kerry, John and Vanda (holding Rachel).
Bottom: Here she is aged one, with our cat, Poushka.
This was taken when she was aged about six months. I’m holding Rachel with her sister Vanda behind her and her brother John holding my hand.
Above: This was me with Rachel on her first birthday in January 1982.
Left: Aged about two-and-a-half.
Top: Even at four-and-a-half, Rachel was tall. Her little Egyptian friend Shayma was only a year younger than her.
Bottom left: 7 Jan, 1986, was her first day at school. She was aged five in this picture.
Bottom right: Just two years later, Rachel at a friend’s birthday party.
This is the only picture of all six of us as a family, taken in 1986 or 1987. Ray and I are standing and seated are Vanda, Rachel, John and Kerry.
The day of her first Communion in the garden of our old house in June 1989. She was eight years old.
Top: Rachel aged 12 with our friend and priest, Father Michael White, on the day of her Confirmation in 1993.
Bottom: In the garden of our old house on the famous bike.
Aged 11, on the first day at St Mary’s College, her senior school.
Rachel with my younger brother, her uncle Allan, who also died far too young under tragic circumstances.
Rachel with Ray and I on holiday when she about 15 in Glendalough, Ireland.
Top: Rachel with Vanda.
Bottom: Standing over her brother John and Vanda.
On holiday in America in the summer of 2000 – wearing her WWF wrestling grear!
Top: In our garden aged about 18.
Bottom: Rachel with her brother John on 30 December 1999.
In her own flat with Speedy Tomato the kitten!
Top: Rachel with her boyfriend Mark in 2002.
Bottom: This is her last ever picture. She has very blonde hair here. It was taken in the pub with a friend on 31 December 2002. A few hours later she was dead.
This was 2002, the year of Rachel’s death. She was 21. We didn’t realise we had this picture until the police asked us for a snap. Her brother John found a film which hadn’t been developed in his camera and this was among the photos. It became iconic in the press in the months afterwards and is the image that was used to paint her portrait.