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By Gitta Sereny

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"Gitta Sereny has labored with disturbed young ones, and her dignified, compassionate publication is a mile clear of the standard tawdry bills of sensational homicide trials... the tale of Mary Bell in all its terrifying aspect is advised right here with tremendous lucidity, joined to striking charity and understanding." (Julian Symons Washington Post)

"Accurate and scrupulously reasonable" (T.C.N. Gibbons New Society)

"Gitta Sereny's transparent and readable ebook may help many folks to make feel of the story... She additionally attracts out the teachings to be discovered either by way of specialist employees, and by way of society at large." (W.H. Allchin Mind)
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What type of baby murders one other baby? First released in 1972, The Case of Mary Bell nonetheless stirs controversy at the present time and is a piece of notable and compassionate journalism.

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That Sunday, 26 May, was Mary Bell’s eleventh birthday, and Mary and Susan—Norma Bell’s eleven-year-old sister who also occasionally played with Mary—took Mary’s Alsatian for a walk in Hodkin Park. “Mary asked us whether I’d sent her a birthday card,” Susan said, “and I said I had. ” When Susan’s parents heard her scream they dashed out, they say, and saw Mary and Susan standing near the front door of the house, Mary with both hands around Susan’s neck. “I chopped Mary’s hands away,” says Mr.

I knew something had happened. Georgie stayed with Linda—I just ran. I didn’t know where it was, but I turned into the old houses, I just knew it was there. When I got there, Rita was there and she kept saying, ‘He’s just asleep,’ but I knew—I knew he was dead. When they brought him down I saw him—his face was—you know, graylike, mouselike—I knew. . They tried to revive him in the ambulance. M. that Martin was dead, sent a sergeant and constables from the uniformed division (who are in charge of accidents) straight to the scene.

He was bleeding from the head. We jumped down and picked him up but could not lift him up onto the grass. We climbed back onto the grass and pulled him up by his hands. We shouted to a man who was passing on Scotswood Road but he would not help. Then we saw another man on Scotswood Road and shouted for him and he carried John to the Delaval Arms where an ambulance and the Police were sent for. I have never seen John playing down there before and I have never taken him down there. signed: N. m. , 12 May 1968 by Sgt.

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