My twin brother was murdered — 16 years later I met his killer

Simon and his twin brother Nick were each other’s world (Picture: Supplied)

Nick Dawson struggles to think back to his idyllic childhood growing up in the Lake District.

He and identical twin brother Simon lived with their parents and older brother, Richard, in the tiny village of Branthwaite, near Workington, in a house with an enormous garden populated by a cockerel and brood of hens.

With no shops or public transport in the village, the pair were each other’s world. They...