John then let her go and vanished. For months, Delia was terrified that he’d come again. One night time, she got here house to search out John hiding in her flat. When a buddy seen that Delia hadn’t come to a celebration, they referred to as the police. When the police arrived, Delia escaped and John was arrested.
Nevertheless, John was launched on bail. On twenty second December 1994, John attacked Delia with an axe and a knife whereas she was on her method house from work. She misplaced a finger within the assault, however a neighbour helped her to flee. Delia spent months in hospital recovering.
It wasn’t till 2011 that John was discovered responsible of the homicide of Halstead and of Paula Fields, a single mom with whom he had additionally had a relationship.
The place is Delia Balmer now?
ITV
Right now, Delia is working as a therapeutic masseuse.
As she advised ITV, John Sweeney left her modified endlessly. “I’m a perfectionist however my life is reverse of good,” she mentioned. “I usually endure from melancholy and anxiousness, afraid of life and afraid of the long run, a compulsive worrier. After I look within the mirror I see a stranger. Sure bodily ache, I’ll have for all times. I’m caught. I can’t transfer on, and can’t go additional. Worry holds me again from doing sure issues. I reside for journey, however it’s has additionally grow to be nearly my solely escape from actuality. Ballet lessons have at all times been an necessary a part of my life.”
Since collaborating with ITV on the present, Delia has apparently modified for the higher. “It’s a daily factor now that my spouse and I take Delia out to a Greek restaurant in London,” mentioned present creator Nick Steven to The Guardian. “She is a special individual to the one I met two or three years in the past. It appears to have been a optimistic for her. You would possibly anticipate somebody who has been by way of all that to be tearful with moments of gloomy introspection. However there’s none of that.”