48: Speak No Evil (June & Jennifer Gibbons) | Wales

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 26 May 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons refused to speak to anyone but each other for as long as they could remember. After committing arson in their teens, they were sent to Broadmoor Hospital for the criminally insane, Britain’s most notorious maximum-security hospital. The girls made a pact: if one of them died, the other one would start speaking and live a normal life. 11 years later, on the day of their release, Jennifer died mysteriously. June reacted by saying:

“I’m free at last, and at last Jennifer has given up her life for me.”

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0:50.1	They seemed out of place like they had been imported here from another world.
0:59.4	In Wales in the late 1970s, seeing two identical black girls standing at the side of the road
1:06.2	was not a common sight. The teenage twins were neatly dressed and hardly showed any emotion.
1:14.0	Their collective gaze was cast downwards, and when they moved, they did so in a perfectly
1:19.2	choreographed rhythm.
1:21.7	One would walk behind the other, and their arms would hang along their sides.
1:27.0	A white mini drove up to the side of the road.
1:29.8	A brown-haired woman jumped out and walked up to the girls.
1:33.8	It was clear that they recognized her.
1:36.1	She was their teacher.
1:38.6	Kathy Arthur worked at Eastgate Center for Special Education in Pembroke and took a special interest in the Gibbon sisters.
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