“It’s just like she’s forgotten about, but I can’t forget.”
Ms Hill, now 40, said she remembered hearing the door of their new house in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, close as her mum left.
“I woke up and I ran over to the window and she was just getting in the car,” she said.
“I knocked on the window and I waved to her and she waved back. That was the last time I saw her.”
The family, including her brother Daniel, who was 10 at the time, and father Joey, had moved up north that winter.
Tracey had gone to pick up the benefits book she had left at her former home in Nechells, Birmingham, when two men turned up at the door.
