April Fabb (Missing Person)

08/23/21 • 36 min

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April chatted with some friends as she fussed over Judy the Donkey in a field in the hamlet of Metton, Norfolk. It was a couple of days after Easter 1969 and the 13 year old had stopped at “Donkey Field” on her way to her eldest sister’s house in the neighbouring village of Roughton. After a short time April was back on her bicycle and on her way. April never made it to her sister’s house and she has not been seen or heard from since that day.

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Coventry Evening Telegraph 10/04/69
Sunday Mirror 13/04/69
Newcastle Journal 16/04/69
Daily Mirror 10/06/69
Birmingham Post -5/01/79
Daily Mirror 02/04/80
Sandwell Evening Mail 20/05/94
Newcastle Journal 20/05/94
Newcastle Journal 11/06/94
Newcastle Journal 17/06/94
Dundee Courier 16/04/97
Aberdeen press and Journal 20/05/94

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Persons Unknown - April Fabb (Missing Person)

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April Fabb

This episode deals with a crime committed against a child. Please exercise self care when choosing to listen.
Just after lunchtime on a Tuesday afternoon in April 1969, 13 year old schoolgirl April Fabb set off on her bicycle from her home in the tiny hamlet of Metton to the neighbouring village of Roughton, where her married eldest sister lived. Both c communities lie in the East Anglian county of Norfolk, England with the nearest town to Metton, Cromer be