Episode 8 – Hopeless
Lyn Dawson had been missing for three years when her worried friend Sue wrote to the Office of the Ombudsman – an independent government watchdog – about the lack of police action in the case. We go looking and recover a long-forgotten file after decades in storage, and the contents highlight the hopeless responses of police to a probable murder – and raise more questions, as public anger grows.
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