'Linda cured my cancer from beyond the grave'

A CANCER patient who says she was healed by Guernsey's 'miracle child' Linda Martel has been in the island for the first time since being cured.

Ruth Woods, pictured, from Northampton, said that, even today, the grave of the five-year-old, who is said to have healed hundreds of islanders in the 1960s, gave her peace.

The 76-year-old, who was visiting Guernsey with her husband Richard, 64, was diagnosed with bone cancer in 1971.

A carcinoma had been found in her right leg which, doctors warned, might have to be amputated. She recalled being scared, until a friend gave her a small square of white cloth that had once belonged to the child whose healing powers attracted national headlines.

• Read the full story in the Guernsey Press. See below for subscription details.