A SCHOOLGIRL has written a Christmas poem to the murdered father she never knew.

The last photograph taken of Paul Logan shows him cradling his infant daughter, Natalie, just before Christmas 1993.

Mr Logan's killers, who lured the takeaway driver to a remote farm and bludgeoned him to death on Christmas Eve of that year, have never been caught.

Police have recently reviewed the 25-year-old case and said last week they hoped to uncover new evidence.

Mr Logan, from Blackhill, Consett, County Durham, was a delivery driver for the Golden Flower Chinese restaurant and had been sent to Blue House Farm, in nearby Shotley Bridge, by his killers on the pretext of delivering a Chinese meal.

Following the hoax call, made from a telephone kiosk, Mr Logan's body was found on farmland near Shotley Bridge.

Detective Inspector Chris Sharman, of Northumbria Police, said: "A lot has happened over the past 12 years and people have grown up, married and moved.

"However, one group of people who can't move on is Paul's family, who are still searching for answers as to what happened that night.

"His children, who are now 16 and 12, have grown up without really knowing their father and for their sake we need people to come forward."

Twelve-year-old Natalie's poem, called For You Daddy, was released by the police in the hope of stirring the conscience of anyone with information.

She wrote: "He had done nothing, he was innocent but someone decided it was his time, they didn't think of the people left behind.

"Even though I did not know him I still miss my Daddy and I love my Daddy."

Mr Logan's mother, Elsie, said: "Christmas is especially hard. We celebrate for the sake of Paul's children, but I've never put a Christmas decoration up since the day it happened and I never will again.

"Someone knows who did this and it's time for them to come clean."

Natalie now lives with her mother, Pamela Hughes, and brother Michael, 16.