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By Kenneth Roy

The basic facts are these. Naimh Frances Bysouth (or Lafferty), born on 18 June 1994, and Terrie Faye Oliver (also known as Georgia May Rowe), born on 13 February 1995, walked a distance of three miles from the Good Shepherd Centre, in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, to the Erskine Bridge, arriving near the centre of the bridge just before 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday 4 October 2009. They had walked for about an hour to their pre-planned destination.

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By Kenneth Roy

On Sunday 4 October 2009, two girls in the care of the Good Shepherd Centre, Bishopton, Renfrewshire – Neve Lafferty, aged 15, and Georgia Rowe, aged 14 – linked arms and threw themselves off the Erskine Bridge. This is the second part of SR’s examination of a tragic and perplexing case. 

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