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‘Murder scene’ discovered by dog walker actually blow-up doll

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17 April 2024 • 8.35am
‘Murder scene’ discovered by dog walker actually blow-up doll
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A dog-walker thought she’d stumbled on a murder scene – but discovered the ‘body’ was a blow-up inflatable adult doll.

Gina Penman Dearing was with spaniel Siggy when she came across what looked like a body lying in the mud in ‘Ladder Lane’, off Pipers Way in Swindon.

She initially thought something horrendous had happened but soon realised that it was a deflated blow-up doll that had been abandoned.

Gina said: “I thought I’d come across a murder scene.

“There’s an old bridge that takes you to Ladder Lane (it’s nickname I think).

“It was on a very muddy path next to the field where bikes were used.

“I could Siggy was sniffing something and thought, it was just a bag of rubbish until I got near and it took me a while to figure it out.”

This is not the first time that Siggy has sniffed out a questionable object while out on a walk.

In August 2022, Gina was walking her two dogs Siggy and Billie when then six-month-old Siggy found a rubber sex toy.


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