19 April 2012

Forensics experts help a blind author

Diabetes sufferer Ms Vickers, 59, lost her sight seven years ago and turned to the world of her imagination for solace. With a love of English poetry ditties were scribbed to entertain her mother over the years but it is only now she is embarking on her first novel. However, she doesn’t type or use a computer but has a system of elastic bands that guide her to keep lines...

Her son Simon comes over once a week to her Charmouth home and reads her work to her. She was looking forward to one of his visits last year because she had been particularly inspired and had written 26 pages. Unfortunately, When Simon looked at it he found nothing on the paper...

Her son drove her and the blank pages to Dorset Police HQ at Winfrith and waited to see what would happen. True to their word officers in the department worked in their spare time, during breaks to try and crack the puzzle and Mrs Vickers got her manuscript back last week.
From the Bridport News, via Nothing to do with Arbroath.

2 comments:

  1. Have not read the link. Assuming she ran out of ink and they used the indentations on the paper to decipher the words written...

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    1. Why don't you read the link rather than write the comment??? That's why I put the links in!

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