Thursday 17 March 2011

Dead woman found alive after 57years

Amplify’d from uk.news.yahoo.com

A missing woman who was presumed dead has been tracked down and reunited with her family 57 years after she mysteriously vanished. Skip related content

Florence McLellan, 74, who is originally from the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester was found alive and well in Islington, London by police detectives following her disappearance in the '50s.

Unbeknownst to her family, 17-year-old Florence escaped from Brockhall mental institution in Lancashire and fled 200 miles to London in 1954, changing her name to Diane Roberts.

She had been sectioned by her parents after giving birth to a son out of wedlock, and was forced to give the baby for adoption.

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