Model's horror after investigating mum's mysterious death and unanswered questions

For as long as Daniel Wing can remember, he has always had his shoe box of memories. As a boy, he would occasionally get it out to thumb through cherished photographs of his mother.

Everything Daniel knew about was contained within that precious little box.

There was a worn address book, a poem, some school reports, cards – and her birth and death certificates.

Now, in a two-part documentary, Who Murdered You, Mum? Daniel is finally sharing his deeply personal journey with the .

Tina was 32 when she was murdered in north London in 1992, leaving her beloved little boy Daniel behind.

Now 33 and a successful model, he says: “My mum was living in Friern Barnet Hospital, a mental health facility. She was there for postnatal depression and rehabilitation.

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“On her first day going out for an unescorted walk, her body was found. She had been stabbed multiple times and strangled.”

Tina’s body was discovered near a bin area in the hospital grounds.

“She was supposed to be on this walk, but never returned,” Daniel says. “Four hours later, someone found her body.

“That breaks my heart. Why didn’t anyone look for her?

“Tina, Mother, Mummy… I never got to call her any of these things. She never got me to speak a word.”

Raised by his grandmother Lily Wing in Tottenham, north London, Daniel enjoyed a childhood full of love.

“My upbringing was incredible,” Daniel says. “I was raised by an amazing woman – my nan – but I always

knew I was different. I was always aware of that.

“I was told my mum had died and something had happened to her, but it was all very PG.”

Daniel was 10 when he learned the truth about his mother’s death, but the weight of the alarming knowledge took years to sink in.

“I was numb to it at the time,” Daniel says. “After they explained it, my aunt remembered me just asking, ‘Can I go play now?’ I was just a kid, detached from the loss.”

As he grew older, Daniel, who has modelled for make-up brand Charlotte Tilbury, yearned for answers.

When he turned 32 – the age Tina was when she died – he finally felt ready to explore what had happened and ask family members the difficult questions they had always avoided.

But what makes Daniel’s story even more tragic is that there was only one person ever investigated over his mum’s murder – his dad.

“He was put on trial and found not guilty,” Daniel says. “He denied being anywhere near the scene of the crime.”

During the documentary, Daniel talks to members of the Metropolitan Police to try and understand why his father Keith* was acquitted.

Keith – whose full identity is withheld in the programme – was Tina’s first boyfriend, who she was said to have dated because of his persistence, despite him initially giving her “the creeps”.

Tina’s older sister Lesley, 68, recalls how Tina even jumped from her flat’s first-floor balcony in a bid to escape him and ended up fracturing her skull.

In the documentary, Lesley says: “When I went to the hospital, I asked her about it and she was, like, ‘I just wanted to get away from him. He wouldn’t let me out. I just wanted to get away’. I think he was controlling her.”

Despite this, the couple got engaged and Tina became pregnant.

From the outside, things appeared to be going well but one day, new mum Tina was found walking the streets barefoot in just a nightdress in the middle of winter.

She was taken to a police station, where Keith told them Tina had tried to set fire to the cot, which she denied. Her sister remains sceptical about the claim. Lesley says of Tina: “She wasn’t a smoker, she didn’t have matches… it just didn’t add up.”

Tina was detained on remand at Holloway prison and then moved to Friern Barnet Hospital, where she started growing a beard – showing she had a hormone imbalance.

After treatment, she improved drastically and told the authorities she wanted to focus on her son and not see Keith any more.

Soon afterwards, she was found dead.

At Keith’s trial, witness testimonies were found to be inconsistent.

One person believed they saw Keith near the hospital on the day of the murder, while another said it might have been the day before. Then, blood found on Tina’s clothing couldn’t be tested for DNA due to the limitations of the time.

“I feel like my mother was let down,” Daniel says.

“She wasn’t the ‘perfect victim’ due to her struggles but I don’t want her to be forgotten. She has been forgotten for 32 years.”

Daniel had always thought his

dad had died – but the documentary reveals he is in fact alive and well and went on to marry and have two more children.

This is something Daniel found particularly difficult, as Keith had never tried to contact him.

“Why isn’t he fighting to get justice for the mother of his child?” he says. “It is strange.”

Daniel has had communication with the police, who are looking for new evidence to reopen the case. “The police need compelling evidence to move forwards,” he says. “I’m hoping someone might come forward.

“If anyone you know was at the hospital, whether as a patient or staff, and saw something, please speak up.”

Although he has no desire to meet Keith, who declined to comment for the documentary, Daniel says the show has made him feel closer to his mum.

“I know the places she visited. She went to Mallorca, and I worked there too. She worked in Selfridges, and I did a campaign for Charlotte Tilbury that was in Selfridges,” he says.

Another moving discovery was a card sent by one of Tina’s friends to Daniel’s grandmother, expressing how much she had wanted him. “Her friend wrote, ‘She desperately wanted a baby and kept asking me to have one so we could spend our days together’,” Daniel says. “It was quite nice to have that confirmation that she wanted a baby. It wasn’t long ago that I asked my auntie if I was a rape child, so that meant everything to me.”

For Daniel, the documentary is about more than just answers – it’s about healing and hope.

“Grief is a personal journey,” he says. “It’s easy to get stuck in it, but you still have your own life to live and I wanted to give hope to others.

“When someone is murdered, it creates a ripple effect that touches

so many people. It’s important to support each other and shine a light on these stories. I want to shine a light for other victims and families who are coming through this, or just feeling like they’ve had to suppress that voice or search for answers. No one wants to be part of the club of people with murdered women in their family. But it’s still happening a lot and it’s not taken seriously.”

Today, Daniel feels closer than ever to his mother. After years of keeping her photos hidden in the box, he displays them around his home.

“For so long, I didn’t have pictures up,” he says. “Now I have started to put photos of her on the walls and I can see her from different angles. I am definitely starting to see myself inher, which I never saw before.”

* Not his real name

• Who Murdered You, Mum? Will be on Monday 25th November at 9pm on Crime + Investigation.

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