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Big Brother star Chanelle Hayes is planning a dramatic face-to-face showdown with her mother's killer in jail.
Chanelle, who was born in prison, wants to look into psychopath Keith Pollard's eyes and demand: "Why did you murder my mum?"
The 19-year-old received a letter from the Home Office two days after walking out of the Big Brother house last Monday. It asked the BB housemate and her sisters for an "impact statement" about their feelings on Pollard as he comes up to be considered for parole.
Now, Chanelle and her sisters - Maria Lawson, 34, and Melissa Mckenzie, 27 - plan to see Pollard to quiz him about the murder.
The Sunday Mirror exclusively revealed on June 3 that crazed Pollard killed Chanelle's prostitute mother, Andrea Sinclair, in a brutal attack when the BB star was just six months old. Pollard, a client, strangled and mutilated drug-addict Andrea, 32. He had only recently been freed from jail for stabbing to death an elderly woman neighbour.
Pollard was jailed for life in November 1988 after a trial at Manchester Crown Court. Then Home Secretary Douglas Hurd ordered that he should serve at least 20 years for killing Andrea.
Maria said: "Chanelle has always been shielded from what happened to our mum - she was just a baby when it all happened.
"Pollard is a twisted, evil man, but confronting him might be the only thing that could finally give us closure."
After the killing, little Chanelle was taken into care by the authorities. Within weeks, she was adopted by foster parents Harry Hayes - a social worker - and his wife Christine in Wakefield, West Yorks.
Chanelle has never been told the full horrific details of her mother's murder, but her sisters hope that meeting Pollard will help her come to terms with her troubled past.
The letter - sent by the Probation Service on the instructions of the Home Office - told Chanelle and her sisters that Pollard is eligible for parole at the end of this month.
It asked them - as victims of the crime - how they felt about the prospect of him being freed.
Maria said: "We have been distraught since the letter arrived. The thought that he could be released has really upset us. I'm the eldest, so I remember it and I have some understanding - but Chanelle was just a little baby.
"When our mother died, we were all split up. We didn't see Chanelle until she was 14 and tracked down her real family. I can't explain how much our lives have been affected by what that man did."
The sisters - who met in London last week and again last night at Chanelle's home - will request to see Pollard in the Category A jail.
But, the Sunday Mirror can reveal Home Office bosses see Pollard's review as a formality - and plan NEVER to free him. Chanelle was told the news yesterday and said she was overjoyed at it.
But she and her sisters still plan to visit him as they seek closure over their mum's death.
Maria said that the Sunday Mirror's revelations about her mother's death told her more than she and Chanelle had ever known about the shocking circumstances of the murder.
Chanelle poured out her heart to BB housemates Ziggy and Gerry about her mum's murder during a discussion with the pair in the garden.
After 61 days in the BB house, Chanelle walked out into a blaze of publicity last week.
Maria said: "She's stunned by how everyone knows her name and talks to her on the street.
"She has been on a spending spree with all the money she is earning and has asked everyone in the family for their sizes so she can buy them outfits.
"She is living the Big Brother dream - but she has no idea where it's going to lead."
On Friday night, Chanelle drove her silver Volkswagen Beetle up the M1 from London to her parents' home. She stopped at a motorway services where she was mobbed by fans and forced to return to her car.
Maria said: "All anyone wants to know about is whether she got jiggy with Ziggy - but nothing happened.
"When she came out of the house, I spoke to her and it was the first thing I asked. And she promised me, as her sister, that they didn't have sex. She doesn't regret being with him, but she feels it has completely shaped her time on Big Brother which she thinks is a shame.
"Chanelle just feels that she might have enjoyed it more if she hadn't been with him. That was the main reason she left.
"Chanelle knew it would have been better for her career if she had stayed longer, but that wasn't the most important thing for her. She just wanted to be happy."
But she is less charitable toward archrival Charley Uchea - evicted three nights before Chanelle walked out.
Maria said: "A lot of people want to line them up as a double-act to appear on shows together and they were on Big Brother's Little Brother.
"But Chanelle has had enough now and she is refusing to see or appear with Charley again.
"Chanelle has come out of the whole thing smelling of roses, but Charley just seems bitter that she hasn't become a star."
Several kiss-and-tells have been written about her lovelife, but Chanelle's biggest worry is that a sex video with one of her first lovers may go on the Net.
A close friend said: "She was only 16 and is very ashamed of it. She wouldn't mind so much if it was recent, but she is so young in the video."
Last night Chanelle was having a quiet evening with friends at her parents' home.
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