There were please from her parents on TV and radio. One day, just as I walked in from school, local radio was telling the country that the girl had been found, alive and well. We all breathed a collective sigh of relief. She was found in the barn of a farm in Hathersage. She was bound and gagged.
Police say they are looking for a sex maniac.
Look at the last sentence again. To a child, even as old as 11 or 12, these words were authoritative. A sex maniac. The man had abducted her, tied her, gagged her and left her in a barn. Men who liked to bind and gag women.