WHEN identical twins from a happy family stopped talking at the age of eight their case baffled teachers and psychiatrists. June and Jennifer Gibbons refused to speak to their parents, siblings or …
Marjorie, 79, founder of charity SANE, the UK’s leading mental health charity, led the public fight to have the sisters freed and often visits June, now 59.
Then Marjorie had a breakthrough. She had read many of the poems and stories written by the literature- loving sisters and told them so. June wrote in one diary extract from 1981: “My lovely glorious fire was licking its way through the roof, and the thick smoke filled the night sky. . . Lord will forgive me. It’s been a long, painful year.”
Marjorie says: “They had no desire to hurt anyone else, it was a cry for help. They were troubled, lost girls.” Gradually, the sisters began to open up more to Marjorie and it was eventually decided they no longer posed a threat. Marjorie says: “This was one of the most chilling moments in my career. I knew they had decided and that this was a tragic end of their pact.”
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