“WE will love and miss her for the rest of our days.”Those were the heartfelt and tragic words today of a family who have lost a precious daughter in the most awful way.

“WE will love and miss her for the rest of our days.”

Those were the heartfelt and tragic words today of a family who have lost a precious daughter in the most awful way.

Rebecca Rice was found on Sunday dead in a house in Petistree. She had been stabbed several times in the chest and back.

As her family paid their first tributes today, her boyfriend Stuart Adcock appeared before magistrates charged with her murder.

See tonight's Evening Star for the full story.