A terrible secret has emerged about the childhood of Adrian Mole author Sue Townsend two years after her death.
It has been revealed that the writer was playing in woodland near Blaby as a child when she witnessed a man strangle a young girl.
She was eight at the time, in 1953, and had climbed a tree with two friends when they saw the man dragging the young girl behind him.
The hidden group, frozen with fear, watched the him push her against a tree and throttle her.
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