Basildon

Her father, Liam Walsh, from Basildon in Essex, sued TikTok and its parent firm ByteDance in the US last month in an effort to force the firm to release Maia's data.

Reacting to the announcement on X, James McMurdock, the South Basildon and East Thurrock MP, said congestion in Kent would remain "unresolved" despite the project.

The 32-year-old, from Grays, has now won the appeal at Basildon Crown Court against his prison sentence and walked free from court, but with a three-month extension added to a suspended prison sentence he had been given for an unrelated driving offence.

At the latest hearing in Basildon, a judge extended an existing 12-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, which had been imposed for an unrelated driving matter in 2023.

During the investigation it was suggested the murders may have been a revenge attack in light of the drugs death of Leah Betts in Basildon a few weeks earlier.