LET her rest in peace.

That's the reaction from a brother and sister of the 'Silver Queen', the murdered prostitute whose story has been picked up by a TV company.

They spoke about after the Warrington Guardian reported the interest in the case of Patricia Simpson.

She was found murdered at the bottom of a mineshaft in Cardiff in 1963, a year after the 20 year old moved to the area.

"We didn't really want it all dragging up again," said brother Brian Fleming, from Woolston. "As far as I am concerned it was best forgotten about.

"My mother never really spoke about it because she didn't want it bringing back."

And sister Lynn Gamock from Orford said: "We are upset because we have had no input. Nobody was tried to track the family down and it can't be that hard. She has about 100 relatives in Warrington."

The brother and sister also wanted to clear up family details - that John Simpson was not her father Jim, but her adopted father and uncle by marriage, and that Roger is a cousin not a brother.

Miss Simpson was discovered with a scarf noosed round her neck. She was a former pupil at Richard Fairclough School.

Other working girls and the police knew her as the silver queen' because her blonde hair would shimmer under the street lights.