Welcome to season 4, episode 4 of A Walker Mungus.

A podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

Listen a caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that

some listeners may find distressing.

Anne and Alex Greck, who lived in Lewisham South London, became parents to a baby girl Ruth

van in August 1968. Ruth spent the first few months of her life seeing her mother and

father through the clear plastic of an incubator, though she wouldn't be part of the couple's

future. They were struggling. Anne was battling anorexia. Alex was physically disabled, and

they were already parents to a young son Mark, who was born blind.

Before her second birthday Ruth had spent time in the care of social services, and when

she was four years old her parents relinquished their rights, and their children would be permanently

placed in foster care. Ruth was at first sent to live with foster parents in Cambridge.

She was moved frequently, with most placements in Wiz Beach and March in Cambridge here.

Ruth's continuous outburst steadily turned violent, until at 15 she was admitted to

Salter's Assessment Centre, close to Peterborough. While receiving treatment, there were further

reports she had threatened another teenager with a knife, and on another occasion staff had to

wrestle a pair of scissors from her hands. Ruth then slowly directed her frustrations inward,

and began to self-harm. In one instance taking a knife to her thigh.

Following therapy, when she was 16 years old, Ruth would meet the father of her first two

children, 23-year-old Trevor Harvey. The couple remained together for seven years.

They lived in the market town of March Cambridge here, and in 1986 the pair became parents to

daughter Rebecca, otherwise known as Becky, and two years later they had a son Ricky, who was born

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