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Debbie Duncan, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, is being backed by her local MP in calling for Jay's Law to prevent the online trolling of grieving families like hers.

“It was my grandmother’s. She died a few weeks ago. It’s the last thing I have of hers.”

From that day, the family tree had been split in two: Pax and his descendants on one side, Agatha and hers on the other.

“My dear Mr. Harley-Dickinson,” she wrote, addressing a playwright friend of hers who had briefly and memorably visited Ashton Place some weeks before, and who was never very far from her mind.

“Woofs,” Cassiopeia explained, patting hers between the ears.