Naomi Smith’s father found his teenage daughter cut from ear to ear, sexually assaulted and mutilated, in a local play park. It was the stuff of nightmares – but what came next were both the highs and lows of British policing. DNA testing in its infancy helped to solve her murder, yet the decision making around her family’s privacy left a lot to be desired.

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