Terror of the woman who can identify real Bakewell Tart killer.

From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | Date: January 20, 2002| Author: Pryer, Nick; Turner, Robert | Copyright information

Byline: NICK PRYER;ROBERT TURNER

A WOMAN who could reveal the real killer of 'Bakewell Tart' Wendy Sewell may be questioned by police this week - after living in fear for 28 years.

Jayne Atkins was 15 when she saw Wendy with another man after Stephen Downing had left the cemetery where the housewife was later found beaten to death.

But afterwards she was so terrified of being attacked by the murderer that she refused to be interviewed by Stephen's ...

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