With a bow in her hair and wearing her favourite pink and white tutu, six-year-old Martine Vik Magnussen poses excitedly for the camera at one of her very first ballet lessons.
'Like many children, she started off wanting to be a ballerina. She enjoyed life and she was pure sunshine. There's no better way to describe her,' says her father Petter, pointing to this treasured photo of the little girl whose life was to end so brutally at the age of 23.
Martine was raped and strangled before her half-naked body was buried beneath rubble in the basement of an apartment block near London's Regent's Park.
Suspicion immediately fell on her close friend Farouk Abdulhak, a fellow student at the nearby Regent's Business School, but he fled Britain, jumping aboard his billionaire father's private jet and flying to Yemen, a country with no extradition treaty with the UK.
As Martine's parents were forced to endure the agonising heartache of losing their eldest daughter, the unbelievable twists and turns in this tragic case were about to start – as I found out during a remarkable two-day interview.
Sitting in the living room of Martine's family home on an island near Oslo, Petter Vik Magnussen revealed how his daughter's death was caught up in the evil web of an entitled playboy, his powerful father, one of Britain's top barristers and Jeffrey Epstein.
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