I also walked past the site of the St Albans bomb 30 mins before it went off, we had been to see The Commitments at the cinema as it wasn't on in our local cinema. I remember getting home, getting a drink and sitting down, putting the TV on and there was St Albans on the news flash, couldn't believe it, I woke my Mum up and she didn't believe me till the following morning when she got up. (loved the Commitments film though)The little girls missing in Soham Holly and Jessica... Everyone desperately hoping they were okwe had just moved to NY for a year and everytime we rang home we were hoping for good news...
From my student days, 1991 I was over in UK from Ireland staying with an uncle in St Albans for a holiday and were allowed out for the evening with his neighbours teens, cinema,takeaway etc - a bomb went off in the city centre, .... All over news thought mom would be so worried... Nope , not a word. So I rang her the following day (fuming ) smart mouthed of course- "I'm alive" ....
The scottish wee woman was having none of it "I'd have heard if you weren't"absolutely no f*cks given!
There's a new drama about them on itv starting soon!John and Ann Darwin!
Yes I’m looking forward to it!There's a new drama about them on itv starting soon!
That was the best headline when they found him in Panama - 'Canoe's this?'John and Ann Darwin!
I'm from Norfolk and have never heard of this! Also very little info on Google, seems not to be very widely reportedI'll always remember the abduction & murder of a little girl called Leoni Keating in 1985, she was taken from an open window of a caravan in Great Yarmouth, we went on holiday as a family to Great Yarmouth every summer, I would have been 10 at the time and always remember my Mum getting upset reading about it and how the following year we were not allowed to go very far without adult supervision.
The boy who drowned, was he just 14?Lockerbie for me. I was a child at the time but I remember it clear as day… it looked just like where we lived. The Paddington train crash. Grenfell was another. It was all just so close to home. I was pregnant at the time and I just couldn’t comprehend the suffering those people, those little children went through. Absolutely broke me. There was another one, local to me, I won’t say his name as it’ll give too much info, but I’ll never forget it- young guy fell in the river drunk on his way home one night around Xmas. Found his body two weeks later drowned. Just a normal kid with his whole life ahead of him who walked home tipsy and fell. Gone. Awfully sad.
I’ve never heard of this before but what an awful, horrific life for that poor girlThere was one that obsessed me the most: this little girl who was known by the psuedonym Genie. Her parents abused her and kept her in a locked room, mostly tied to a potty. She became a study case for scientests because due to the lack of human contact she experienced she never learned to speak.
Her story is tragic but fascinating. It's well worth learning about. You can read more about her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
I’ve read quite a lot about Genie, she led such a very sad life. Her dad hated noise which was how the abuse started. When she was rescued, specialists did all sorts of studies on her to do with speech etc. she would sometimes make progress then sometimes not. One of the specialists fostered her at one point. I believe she ended up living back with her mother (who was blind due to cataracts if I remember correctly) and regressed a lot. Now they have no idea where she is. Such a sad life to have led.I was the kind of kid that would obsessively pore over the deep dive-type magazines of the age such as the Reader's Digest and the Sunday Times magazine.
They used to have much juicier stories than you get now. Stuff like children who were supposedly raised by animals and the twin boys Johnny and Luther Htoo who led a guerilla splinter cell in Burma. (Who else remembers this iconic photo? It takes me waaaay back.)
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There was one that obsessed me the most: this little girl who was known by the psuedonym Genie. Her parents abused her and kept her in a locked room, mostly tied to a potty. She became a study case for scientests because due to the lack of human contact she experienced she never learned to speak.
Her story is tragic but fascinating. It's well worth learning about. You can read more about her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
Was this Jack Morrad?Lockerbie for me. I was a child at the time but I remember it clear as day… it looked just like where we lived. The Paddington train crash. Grenfell was another. It was all just so close to home. I was pregnant at the time and I just couldn’t comprehend the suffering those people, those little children went through. Absolutely broke me. There was another one, local to me, I won’t say his name as it’ll give too much info, but I’ll never forget it- young guy fell in the river drunk on his way home one night around Xmas. Found his body two weeks later drowned. Just a normal kid with his whole life ahead of him who walked home tipsy and fell. Gone. Awfully sad.
no, he was an adult, young thoughThe boy who drowned, was he just 14?
No. Story didn’t even go beyond local news I suspect. I just drive over the place they found him every day so I think of him a lot. Sadly I think stories like his are quite commonWas this Jack Morrad?
Yeah I remember my mum crying over those stories. And she never cries.The Romanian orphans in the 80s, banging their little heads on the shared metal cots. I'll never forget how backwards Eastern Europe was.
I think these headlines dominated the news at a time when I was starting to pay attention to the world around me.
I remember the headlines about food shortages and the austerity in Romania. I think it was the first time I noticed 'white' poverty.
Yes, Leah Betts. It was a very big story at the time. I still think of her.The girl who died from taking an Ecstacy pill always stuck with me. Leah Bates was her name, and it always stayed with me. And when i was young and experimenting with drugs, i would take anything apart from Ecstacy pills because of what happened to her.
Yes, it's something I looked up a few years ago as it was on my mind for some reason and I think if I can recall correctly the man who was found guilty was a known sex offender, he was given a 30 year sentence so would be free now if he got parole and I could be wrong but I'm sure I can remember my Mum saying that the little girl had been left on her own in the caravan but I could be wrong.I'm from Norfolk and have never heard of this! Also very little info on Google, seems not to be very widely reported
Yes, it's something I looked up a few years ago as it was on my mind for some reason and I think if I can recall correctly the man who was found guilty was a known sex offender, he was given a 30 year sentence so would be free now if he got parole and I could be wrong but I'm sure I can remember my Mum saying that the little girl had been left on her own in the caravan but I could be wrong.
There's actually a book that was written on this case. You can also find out the horrifying details of what that monster did to her. Her mum did leave her alone for over 3 hours. They are very quiet about his release..Yeah the one article I managed to find had very little info, but did say she was left on her own in the caravan park while her mum went drinking.
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