Cousin breaks 84-year silence over girl's murder
The last person to see a four-year-old girl before she was murdered has spoken publicly about it for the first time in 84 years.Her body was found the next day by a railway line, having also been sexually assaulted, but her killer has never been caught.Speaking to BBC Wales' true crime series, Darkland: Hunting the Killers, he recalled playing in the garden with Joyce and her older brother Dennis before leaving through the back gate and walking home.
At 03:00 GMT the next morning he was woken by his mother and taken by an officer to a police station to be questioned. Alan recalled a "nasty neighbour who would hit you", who the family suspected at the time of carrying out the murder. She said he would touch her shoulders, arms and legs, and would say: "Don't say anything to the wife".Alan said the police had warned the family not to get involved with the man.
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