Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast19 Feb 2025

Debbie Leitch: Left For Dead

This week we head to the seaside resort of Blackpool.

Home to Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the iconic Blackpool Tower, the town attracts millions of visitors every year. And it's not just tourists that flock to this quintessentially British holiday destination. Every year, thousands of people move to Blackpool from other parts of the UK. In 2016, 21-year-old Debbie Leitch and her mother, Elaine Clarke, moved there from Leeds, with Elaine's three other children.

The move should have signalled the beginning of an exciting new chapter in their lives, but for Debbie, who had Down Syndrome, it heralded the beginning of the end when her life spiralled into a downward descent into hell where neglect, abuse and isolation reigned supreme.

This is an infuriating story which contains descriptions of neglect and abuse that some listeners may find distressing. Listener discretion is advised.

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