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Pollock twins
Identical twins born in Hexham in 1958, seventeen months after their two older sisters were killed by a driver; the younger twin had birthmarks matching a scar and a mole of one sister, and the pair made a few statements and recognitions that their parents linked to the sisters' lives.
Purnima Ekanayake
A Sri Lankan girl, born with pale birthmarks on the left of her chest, who spoke of being an incense maker killed by a big vehicle; her statements matched Jinadasa Perera of Angoda, near Kelaniya, whose post-mortem report recorded crushing injuries across the same area.
Sujith Lakmal Jayaratne
A Sri Lankan boy whose statements about being 'Gorakana Sammy' were written down by a monk before any checking and matched Sammy Fernando, an arrack distiller killed by a lorry in 1969; as a toddler Sujith asked for arrack and acted out a drunkard's habits.