I stared down cowardly Xmas killer who stabbed my mum in the head 29 times before hiding in tent during 18-day manhunt

SHANNON Brown shudders at the memory of happily queuing up with her one-year-old daughter to meet Santa at a Christmas grotto.

For just hours later, the 30-year-old’s life was turned upside down after being told the devastating news that her mother, Michelle Hanson, had been viciously murdered.

Shannon Brown, 30, with her late mum Michelle Hanson, 47, who was brutally stabbed to deathTrue Life Stories True Life Stories‘Urban survivalist’ Alexander Carr stabbed the grandma 29...