"Si-id!" Hannah wailed, toddling after her brother as fast as her little legs would carry her. "Gimme back Dolly! Please! I want Dolly!"
"Come and get it," Sid taunted, waving the rag doll over his shoulder.
"Give her back!" Hannah howled, her face red and tears welling up in her eyes.
"Nope," Sid replied, holding the doll high above his head.
Hannah bounced up and down, trying to catch it. "Gimme Dolly! Gimme Dolly!"
Sid tossed Dolly into the air with one hand and caught her with the other, laughing. "Never! Not gonna happen!"
"I'm telling Daddy," Hannah sobbed.
Sid ignored her, running out into the garden towards a barbecue, and pulling a packet of matches from his jean pocket.
"Dolly," Hannah whimpered, watching wide-eyed, lower lip trembling, as Sid put the rag doll on the barbecue and lit a match.
"Say goodbye to Dolly," Sid jeered, touching the flame to the doll. Hannah screamed. The doll was alight. Sid was laughing. Hannah was crying. Dolly was burning.
"I HATE YOU," Hannah bawled, running back towards the house.
Snorting with laughter, Sid put out the flames and chucked the doll carelessly into the sandpit.
Meanwhile, four-year-old Andy Davis was watching the scene from across the road, in front of his own house, clutching a cowboy doll to his chest. He had a feeling this Sid boy was bad news.