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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dan Haygarth

‘Murdered because she was a woman’: The horrific cold case killing that left a community prisoners in their own homes

Diane Sindall was just trying to get home from work.

The 21-year-old florist had finished a shift at her second job at the Wellington pub in Bebington, Wirral, on Friday, 1 August 1986. She was working the extra job to save for her wedding, planned for 1987. She left the pub just before midnight, heading for her Seacombe home, but her blue Fiat van ran out of petrol on Borough Road, Birkenhead. Between midnight and 12.20am on 2 August, Diane was seen walking along the road by witnesses.

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