Dead Babies Mistaken For Christmas Decorations
A CLACK of marmalade-coated tongues as Mail readers learn: “Bodies of two babies hidden in a box for 50 years were mistaken for Christmas decorations.”
It’s 1956, Winifred Atwell is No. 1 in the hit parade. Egypt seizes the Suez Canal and rationing has only been a few years gone.
Tough times. And just how tough we can deduce from the aforesaid headline, as dead babies are used as Christmas decorations.
The paper says that the ornaments were found on top of a bedroom wardrobe in Audenshaw, Greater Manchester, last Thursday.
Says detective Inspector Derek Weaver: “We believe the boxes have been there for some time. The only clue we have was the presence of a newspaper, dated November 26, 1956, which was alongside one of the bodies.”
And a Christmas tree made from a German feldgrau coat and a broomstick…
May 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Another sad story, twenty years later and they may have been aborted, or it may all be less than sinister.
But as it was 1956, and the war was over for some 9 years, is there a Nazi connection, after all Xmas trees are of German origin….
May 13th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
It appears to be considerably easier than I had imagined to leave dead bodies around the place…
May 13th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
There was that midwife some while back, she had 6 hidden away