‘People have told me he was cut up and fed to the pigs, that he was chopped up and put in a lobster pot, that he was thrown overboard in the middle of the Channel, that his head was kicked like it was a soccer ball, that he was stuck with a pitchfork…’ says Val Nettles, reeling off just some of the horrifying rumours she has heard in the 28 years since her son Damien vanished.