Sharon Fletcher and her younger brother Wayne were two latch-key kids who lived a couple of doors down from Betty Turpin on Hillside Crescent. She chatted to them when they were playing outside one day and she found out they were shut outside until their mum got home. Upon questioning them, they said they went into bus shelter when it rained. Betty gave them sweets and spoke with her friends about her concerns, saying that she’d not heard of their father for years. She saw them again another day and questioned them as to where their mother was but her boyfriend and the children’s “uncle Reg Sudworth intervened and told Betty to mind her own business. Despite this Betty continued to talk to the children and taught them both to cross the road safely and gave them money for chips when they ha