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Barry Hutt, a professor of human evolutionary history at the University of the West of England, says that, while the two women were never married, they had "quite an interesting history".
In the 1960s, Hutt says, one of the women, who was the sister of a notorious mobster, visited a local prison and "mouthed off at the guard" when he tried to get her out of prison.
"When she found out she had no money, she got in a hurry to get him a drink and left," Hutt says.
Then she returned to prison to get some cash but was arrested on another charge. "She was charged with assault and that was the start of the affair," says Hutt. "And they split up again, and the next time they'd take a train to London and, well, they never lived on each other.
"Then it was a bit of banter at various times of her life where she would say: 'I'll call them in'."
A man who used to live in the home where the woman lived with her
