Early on the morning of October 7, 1965, just as daylight was breaking and the world beginning to stir, the local police station in the Manchester suburb of Hyde received a strange 999 phone call. A terrified teenage boy was calling from a telephone box on a nearby council estate.
He begged the police to come immediately and fetch him. The young man was a 17-year-old called David Smith and with him was his wife, Maureen.
Once at the station, David blurted out a bizarre story about how the previous evening he had gone to the house of his wife’s sister, Myra
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