I can tell you about the recent case of a woman whose daughter had been murdered. The man who had committed the murder was found 15 years later. After all of the court proceedings and all of the time that had elapsed, the woman thought that she had grieved her daughter. But there was an adjournment, and up till the last minute, she wrote out her statement and included everything she had been through. For her, the fact of being able to express that to the man who had murdered her daughter was really cathartic.
On November 18th, 2014. See this statement in context.