Septic tank murder victim’s granddaughter recounts hearing scream, being locked out of house

Kevin O’Neil

Nikita Semple, the granddaughter of Colleen Forrester who was murdered and dumped in a septic tank in 2007, yesterday testified to hearing a scream while going down the backstairs of the William Street house and finding herself locked out, when she tried to get back in.

Semple, who was 12 years old in 2007, said that the last time she saw her grandmother alive was in the company of Anthony De Paul Hope called ‘Papa’ and Ralph Tyndall called ‘Nick’.

Hope, Tyndall and Kevin O’Neil are jointly charged with Forrester’s murder. The woman was