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Daniel Charles Handley was a nine-year-old boy from East London.

On 2nd October 1994, Daniel was fixing a chain on his bicycle near his home when he was approached by two men who claimed to be lost and asked Daniel to show them directions on a map. When Daniel leaned inside to look at the map, one of the men pushed him into the car and the other drove off. They drove Daniel to a flat where they took turns to sexually abuse him, videotaping the abuse. They then strangled Daniel to death and dumped his body in a shallow grave, returning later to bury him deeper. Daniel's skull was found in March 1995, five months after he went missing.

Brett Tyler and his boyfriend Timothy John Morss had been driving the area looking for a young, pre-teen, fair-haired boy to fulfil their fantasy of abducting a boy, raping him and killing him. After the trial, they were revealed to be sexual predators who had abused children in the Phillippines. They had met while in prison for child sex offences, Morss for raping two young boys in 1986 and Tyler for indecency with young boys. After killing Daniel, both men fled to the Philippines, Morss was arrested when he returned to England and Tyler was extradited. Horrifying details of Daniel's abduction have since come forward and after his abduction, Daniel was seen at service stations with multiple men, it is thought by detectives that Daniel was kept prisoner by Morss and Tyler and members of a child sex offenders gang who abused him for up to a month before his death.