13 February after her parents had become concerned for her welfare, and her father began searching the house after her husband repeatedly feigned ignorance as to her whereabouts.

It was during this search that he found his daughter’s gold hair visible from inside a bin bag, and discovered that she had been killed, a family friend told MailOnline.

Her parents had first questioned her disappearance after their grandchildren’s local nursery contacted them, to say that Ms Joksimovic had failed to collect them.