Ghosts of Cannock Chase: Terrifying reports of paranormal activity from the UK’s most haunted town (Lee Brickley's Paranormal X-Files)

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Regional current affairs programme ATV Today broadcast a 20-minute episode pertaining to the abduction and murder of Christine Darby in November 1969. In fact, Cannock Chase is well-known for being saturated with ghostly goings-on, as the map of paranormal paraphernalia on the Shropshire Star depicts.

I’d read the stories in the news about the black-eyed child, but it wasn’t until the thing stood right in front of me that I could quite believe them," one teenager said. One of these witnesses, Victor Whitehouse, gave a detailed description of the man, whom he had observed leaning on the door of a vehicle he believed to be a "Farina" model Cambridge or Oxford saloon parked where police had found the vehicle's tyre tracks. According to lore, the Black-Eyed Child appears suddenly and asks for help, usually in a child-like voice.The first day of proceedings saw legal arguments between prosecution and defence as to whether Morris should be tried for each of the charges to which he had pled guilty and not guilty separately or together. Ashworth also informed the jury the reason he had ruled Morris be tried on each charge to which he had pleaded not guilty alongside the indecent assault charges—to which Morris had pled guilty—was that the indecent assault charges were similar fact evidence to the attempted abduction and murder charges, potentially linking the defendant to more than one incident involving the abuse of children. m. on 19 August 1967, a seven-year-old named Christine Darby was lured into a grey car as she played with friends near her home in Camden Street, Caldmore, Walsall.

Relatives of all three children share investigators' conviction Morris had killed both children and attempted to murder Taylor in addition to having killed Christine Darby. The ghost of a bedraggled woman has also been reported, often seen wandering through the woods in a dazed and confused state. By the summer of 1967, no further clues of any substance existed for police to pursue, and the investigation into the children's murders had largely become cold. This minimum term of imprisonment was later replaced with a whole life tariff by a Home Secretary or High Court judge.Staffordshire County Council used laser-scanning technology to recreate the site as a 3D interactive model that can be explored online.