April Fabb: The mystery of a schoolgirl's disappearance
For people of a certain age, the face of April Fabb is a familiar one.
On her bedroom walls were posters of her favourite band, Amen Corner. They were to remain there for years after her disappearance, untouched by her parents in the hope that she would one day come back. In the early hours of 9 April, Norfolk's most senior detective Det Ch Supt Reginald Lester was called in. He immediately grasped the implications and suspected that April must have been abducted. It was a case that would haunt him until his death 48 years later.
Her family clung to the hope her absence had an innocent explanation."She's the sort of girl that if she saw some primroses she would most likely go and pick them," her father said.By Thursday, the second full day, more locals were helping, desperate to find a girl most of them knew. By Friday, three days after she had last been seen, her parents appealed to her directly through the press to return. They refused to lock the door overnight, leaving a light on in the porch.The missing minutesAs April left Metton to ride to her sister Pamela's house, she saw two friends playing with a donkey in a farmer's field.The last sighting of the 13-year-old was by the driver of a Land Rover passing in the opposite direction as she left the hamlet, at 14:06.
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