Cliche of the Week 3 – Shallow Grave

Bodies are so often found in a shallow grave that if one is ever found in a deep hole this fact surely will be the stuff of headlines.

This cliché, a standard from the crime reporter's breathless word list, is rarely followed by a definition of the depth of the hole.

In April this year, a 12-year-old girl in Jamaica dug herself from where her would-be killer buried her after thinking he had strangled her to death. No mention on the size of the hole but it must have been shallow enough.

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