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I WENT KNOCKING AT HEAVEN’S GATE

Debbie Adlington and her late husband, Tony, with two of their kids.

With her three young children, Craig, Katelyn and Kevin.

(CORRIE HANSEN, SUPPLED, ARCHIVES)

SHE’S seated at a table in a café at a mall near her home in Kirstenhof, Cape Town, sipping coffee – a drink that’s become her lifeline.

It’s like an antidepressant for her, Debbie Adlington says. “I can’t go through life without coffee. When I start talking about my past I start to stress. And then I drink coffee.”

This year marks the 22nd anniversary of the horror incident that would go down in history as one of South Africa’s worst family murders. Debbie’s husband, Tony, axed their three children – Kevin (12), Katelyn (10) and Craig (9) – to

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