Age: 44
Sex: male
Date: 27 Apr 1956
Place: 22 Cambridge Grove, Hammersmith, London
John O'Shea was found dead in his lodgings after a robbery.
A man was tried for his murder in December 1959 but acquitted. It was heard that he had confessed to the murder, but later said that he had made his confession up and that he had made it whilst under the influence of drugs and had wanted to die, saying that he thought that if he admitted to the murder that he would be hung.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/3252, DPP 2/2995, MEPO 2/10024
see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper
see "Crime Confession 'Under Drugs'." Times [London, England] 2 Dec. 1959: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 3 Mar. 2013.
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 01 December 1959
see Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette - Friday 29 June 1956
see Unsolved 1956
