A woman who had an affair with her married dance instructor kept the remains of their love-child hidden away from a disapproving world for half a century, an inquest was told yesterday.Gladys Mary Briggs, who gave birth out of wedlock in 1957, locked the baby's body in a suitcase and lived with it in her council flat for 50 years.
It was only discovered this year when council staff visited Mrs Briggs's home after ill-health forced her to leave. They found the remains wrapped in cloth, enclosed with a copy of a newspaper of the time.
Mrs Briggs refused to reveal the baby's identity to police and denied having given birth to him. She died three months after the discovery in January.
The boy's father, Godfrey Moorhen, now 102 and living in sheltered accommodation, has also refused to discuss the matter.
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