The family of murdered teenager Ashley Dighton are hoping for a breakthrough in the hunt after two psychics provided them with new information.

Both claim to have had contact with the 19-year-old’s spirit.

Ashley’s father Ambrose Dighton has spent 18 months appealing for information about his son’s killer.

Now he says he has renewed hope after speaking independently with the psychics.

He paid £45 for a sitting in Wimbledon with former Metropolitan Police officer Keith Charles, who is known in spiritualist circles as the psychic cop, after reading that he had helped to solve murders in America, Canada and Britain.

He has also spoken in depth with clairvoyant Leoni Hukins, from South Ashford, after she told him that she is regularly in contact with Ashley, a former school friend.

Although unknown to each other, Mr Dighton says both are adamant that Ashley wasn’t killed in woodland behind the Ashford Sainsbury’s store where his body was found.

Mr Dighton said: “Keith Charles told me many things about myself he could not have known as they were things only close family were aware of.”

Leoni Hukins, 22, from Brookfield Road, was at Christ Church School with Ashley.

Now married with two children and expecting a third, she claims to have a family gift for links with the past.

She said: “Ever since Ashley’s death I have been getting flashbacks and having dreams about his murder. He comes to me to explain what happened and the pictures are vivid.

“I am not a professional, not a fraud and definitely not seeking publicity, but I have sent details to the police because the messages were so strong and the disruption and grief of the family so great that everyone should help to catch this killer.”

A Kent Police spokesman said: “The investigation into the death of Ashley Dighton continues and Kent Police will consider all new information carefully and sensitively.”

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