
17/08/2025
Just how well do you really know someone.
When Fifteen year old Millie Bellsworth
went missing early one Summer's evening
on her way home from a friend's house, her Mother,
Heather, pleaded and begged for her safe return.
However when police found Millie 16 days later
they also discovered that Heather had conspired
to fake her daughter's kidnap, hoping to pocket
a £ 65.000 reward raised by business owners
and local residents where Millie lived.
The hunt for Millie Bellsworth became a case
that shook the nation, featuring testimony
from Heather's friends and neighbours, journalists
and the Dectectives who rescued Millie.
Ian Trent, Dectective brought In from Scotland Yard
to oversee the case, said how we feared
for Millie's safety stated, " we cleared a lot of ground
In the early stages because statistics suggest
you have 24 hours beyond 24 hours
they're not coming back.
As the days passed, dectectives feared the worst.
Then the police finally received a breakthrough,
when a concerned friend of the family,
Maggie Brown, urged them to look at Arthur Moles,
the brother--In-- Law of Heather's partner Brian.
After 16 days Millie was found 15 miles away
In Arthur's house, where she had been kept
In a garage at the rear of the house, Heather had been
In on the kidnap all along.
Heather and Arthur were jailed for kidnap,
false Imprisonment, and perverting the course
of justice, the two were jailed for 12 years each.
Brings a sense of reality to that saying,
your own are your worst enemy.