It was a despicable crime that shocked a town to its core and left a shadow hanging for more than a decade. Shirley Leach was a frail grandma who had simply nipped to the toilet before she would catch a bus.
But the 66-year-old mother-of-two would never return home. She was the victim of one of Greater Manchester's most brutal and horrific crimes.
Shirley, a widow who lived with her son in Bury, had visited her daughter at Fairfield Hospital on January 6, 1994. She caught a bus to Bury Interchange but missed the service back home.
