They moved to France and then later to Spain<\/p>\n
In the Netflix documentary, The Murder of Rachel Nickell, we find out that Andr\u00e9 Hanscombe and his son, Alex, had to move a lot from the UK to France and later to Spain, and now they have revealed the heartbreaking reason behind it.<\/p>\n
Alex was just two years old<\/a> when he witnessed his mum being murdered on Wimbledon Common in 1992. In the years that followed, he and his dad, Andr\u00e9, moved around a lot, living in different countries and keeping a low profile.<\/p>\n Now, Alex has finally explained why they spent so much of his childhood moving from place to place.<\/p>\n Alex says the media kept finding them<\/p>\n Speaking to The Times<\/a>, Alex explained that they never actually wanted to be in the spotlight after Rachel\u2019s murder. However, whenever there was a new development in the case, journalists would track them down.<\/p>\n \u201cWe never wanted to be the centre of attention. But if there was any development in the case, the press would find us and we\u2019d be cast into the spotlight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Because of that, they repeatedly felt forced to move on. \u201cWe were tracked down to France and forced to move. We were tracked down again in Spain. It felt like another violation.\u201d<\/p>\n Alex added, \u201cMy father always knew it was a possibility and we kept a metaphorical go-bag by the door.\u201d<\/p>\n They first left the UK just months after Rachel\u2019s murder<\/p>\n Andr\u00e9 explained that life became incredibly difficult after Rachel\u2019s death, with media attention following them wherever they went. Just seven months after she was killed, he decided they needed a fresh start away from the public eye. He said, \u201cSeven months after Rachel was killed we fled in the night to France and, once it was just the two of us, our journey started, the good and the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n For Andr\u00e9, moving away wasn\u2019t just about escaping the attention. It was also about creating a life that Rachel would have wanted for their son. He said, \u201cAlex and I built an environment Rachel would have loved, nature, big skies, sunsets, chickens roaming, and we had some golden years.\u201d<\/p>\n The Murder of Rachel Nickell is available on\u00a0Netflix<\/a>\u00a0now. For all the latest Netflix news and drops,\u00a0like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They moved to France and then later to Spain In the Netflix documentary, The Murder of Rachel Nickell,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[969,17977,17,970,971],"class_list":["post-37723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-netflix","tag-rachel-nickell","tag-spain","tag-true-crime","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}