Hood to cross the creek then scale a muddy, wooded hill, encountering multiple breastworks and three lines of Northerners.

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But this was all cruelly ripped apart in June last year when Ceri Fuller, 35, took the three children to a wooded beauty spot at Pontesbury Hill in Shropshire where he stabbed them to death before taking his own life.

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With their daughters Nadia, 8, and Anja, 6, Scott and Claudia Sheppard live in a modest-sized house in a wooded area a few miles from downtown Chapel Hill.

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It is just as stunning now as it was then - high wooded hills plunging down to the lakeside and a castle perched atop a hill near the start, balanced by a church on an island near the finish.

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