LIKE MANY a small child, Lyra McKee at four years old was all questions. Why should her mother, who was poor and had six children and was bringing them up single-handed on the Clifton-ville Road in north Belfast, have to pay her bills? Why would she go to jail if she didn't? No answer ever satisfied her, and she would leave her mother with "Why?" ringing in her ears. It didn't stop when she got older, though. Her hero was Walt Disney's Robin Hood, a talking fox who righted wrongs and, obviously, unearthed them first. So she was almost bound to become, as she did, the most dogged investigative journalist. She got especially persistent if she felt there were secrets involved, things people didn't want anyone to know. These she had to find out. Not all at once, A-Z, which quickly bored her, but little clues, a breadcrumb trail, which she could follow to see where it led.
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