The impact of the murder of Lisa Hession is still felt in the town where she lived, almost 40 years on. As the Manchester Evening News's publisher Reach PLC launches a new true crime newsletter called Testimony this week, our chief reporter, Neal Keeling, looks back on a case which has haunted his career. For decades dark questions have hung over a small town.
Who killed Lisa Hession - and why? It's 37 years since the schoolgirl lost her life, and the hunger for answers is as strong as ever in the close-knit, former mining community of Leigh, to the Western edge of Greater Manchester, on the old Lancashire coalfield.
In this Rugby League, so-called 'Red Wall' town, you don't have to look too hard to find people who remember Lisa. Neither is
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