Actress Lesley-Anne Down has revealed she was almost abducted by a stranger aged 11 in a chilling echo of one of the Moors Murders.
The horror came just after the body of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady’s victim Lesley Ann Downey – almost the same age and with an almost identical name – was found on Saddleworth Moor, Gtr Manchester.
Lesley-Anne, who was in TV hits Upstairs, Downstairs and North and South, claims a man tried to get her into a car near her home in Putney, South West London.
She said: “I was almost kidnapped when Lesley Ann Downey had just been found. I’d run ahead of my mother. "When she caught up, the man had stopped me, told me he needed a babysitter and we would call my parents when we got to his house. “I remember having one
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