Doris Shelley was a frail pensioner who had been brutally beaten in her own home and left for dead, yet there seemed to be no motive.
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She was almost Churchillian, ‘I’ve lost my husband, I live alone, I’m not going to let it beat me and I can do it without anybody’s help
Frank Ryder