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21st November 1977: Deirdre Langton had suffered the ordeal of an attempted rape while walking home one night from keep-fit classes. For several weeks, she found herself unable to talk to husband Ray about what she had suffered and a gap formed between the two. Deirdre thought she knew the man who did the deed but refused to say so until she confirmed a week later that a man arrested for another rape was one and the same as her attacker. She put too brave a face on what she had gone through to the point where she was locking herself in the house and scared of any callers. Ray tried tough love, trying to force her to go out for a meal with him. When she refused, he walked out on her in anger. Deirdre, at the end of her tether, herself left the house and walked to a bridge over a motorway where she stood looking down at the roaring traffic and contemplating suicide...
 * For more information see Episode 1758 (21st November 1977).