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TRIBUTES have been paid to the committed former president of a homelessness charity, described as being “close to a saint”. Patricia Norman, who was life president of Brighton Housing Trust (BHT), has died at the age of 96. The Quaker and teacher became involved with the charity in 1969, a year after it was set up. It was while attending the founding meeting of the West Pier Society in 1969 that Patricia decided to join the organisation. While she thought the society’s aims to save the pier were worthwhile, she was more concerned with the people sleeping underneath it than the...

I didn't come back. >> justine's brother, kyle, dropped out of college to help keep things together at home and get justine to her medical appointments. and randy, her father, the strong and tall as a montana spruce firefighter and national guardsman turned angry and bitter at the continuing prosecution of his little girl. >> i could be sitting in the living room watching tv and all of a sudden i hear something. i'd just completely lose it and start crying. >> the whole world, said justine's dad, seemed to tent on misunderstanding, demonizing his little girl. yet, he said, she'd always been so...

And the truth about what happened on that late winter night might be darker than anyone knew. here's keith morrison. >> march 19th, 2009. night fell heavy in montana's flathead valley. something off that night, something wrong. at mary and randy winter's house, anxiety spiked. where was she? >> it just felt like something was not right. >> it's hard to explain that there's something not normal. >> you could set your clock by their daughter, justine. that reliable. but a new driver, too, just 16. on her way home from her boyfriend's house. and though she wasn't very late, the feeling seeped in ...

>> in love? >> kid love. >> pretty strong love, that kid love, isn't it? >> i remember if i wasn't with him, i was texting him all the time. >> as for that text following the argument just before the crash, justine said despite what many believe, she would never, ever have tried to commit suicide knowing as she does that her grandmother, randy's mother, killed herself when her dad was just a boy. that, she says, the most likely explanation, she was just playing a game of sorts with ryan. >> he liked controlled everything having to do with, like, my life and he -- he threatened suicide twice. t...

>> but for justine's family, too, there was considerable strain. so much that justine's father, randy, buckled under the pressure and was rushed to the hospital and not present in the courtroom. >> i will have the clerk to file the verdict and to read it, please. >> -- when after just four hours of deliberation, the jury came back. >> we the jury enter the following unanimous verdict to the charge of deliberate homicide for the death of erin thompson, guilty. for the death of caden o'dell, guilty. >> this was an absolutely horrible, numbing experience. i put my head between my knees. >> it was...