Some of these are a challenging read. So I have tried to add as much relevant info.
Do we know Eve Stratford's height? She looks petite in the photo with her boyfriend.
Lynne was 7stone petite 5ft 1" (google will convert for anyone unsure).
That evening Lynne had brown, short hair, (looking at photos, light brown, she looks almost blonde in some), blue denim jeans, blue and white tank top, blue and white wool mixture cardigan, brown platform shoes with blue leather uppers.
Two boys walked Lynne part of the way home, they along with the other friends she met that night had all been at school together. The boys stated they saw nobody following them. They usually walked Lynne home, but that night she said she was fine and they parted ways at the junction of Lower Sutton Lane and Great West Road near the Master Robert Hotel (still there). This is further than I previously thought she had walked alone. While out she had drank 2 x ½ pints of cider, she met her close friend Rosemary there, there were 7 friends who had all been at school together. Lynne's boyfriend of around 2 months who was a couple of years older had gone elsewhere that evening, to a hotel with friends.
The 17 year old daughter of the school caretaker saw her from the kitchen window and called her mother to say someone was lying down outside and the mum called her husband. The Mum thought Lynne was already dead, her and her husband went out to the substation to check her face was badly marked and her face and head covered in blood, she was naked from the waist down.
Lynne had a wide circle of friends and was nice to everyone, was well liked.
Lynne's mother stated she knew the boys couldn't possibly have anything to do with it, and that they were very nice young men.
The father says if he finds who did it he won't be responsible for his actions.
Police thought the attacker used a heavy metal object like a hammer or Jimmy (crowbar), I have read she had two fractures in one piece, facial lacerations and hypothermia. (I know she had lacerations on her breasts too from other sources already added, so did Eve Stratford).
They police say it was a ferocious and brutal attack on a young girl and that the person was very determined. Not just the force used to harm her, but lifting her over the fence. They also believed his clothing would have been heavily stained with blood.
I notice most accounts don't mention she had a small piece of clothing shoved down her throat, it might have been a sock, or the scarring of her breasts, that her top was pulled up above her breasts, that she was posed (To cause shock? To defile her further?). I need to find other descriptions, as I think I recall something about signs of her also being bound, I don't want to say outright incase I am mis-remembering.
Some people comment that he may have been disturbed, he seems to have plenty of time to do what he wanted. I doubt he had a knife on him or he would have used it.
I know Lynne's parents told her never to use the little lane running down the side of the school, Short Hedges, and just because Lynne said she didn't use it, doesn't make it so. It would have cut time and distance off her way home, she had had a little to drink and must have been dealing confident to tell the boys walking with her not to walk her home, she was ok.
Teens don't tend to think of repurcussians and death too much unless they're in dark circumstances.
There had been talk of flashers and wot not in that lane previously. Probably some people jumped in there to have a pee too. I think it's just as possible the perp was in there waiting for an opportunity.
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