Age: 65
Sex: female
Date: 28 Aug 1957
Place: Collyhurst Road, Collyhurst, Manchester
Alice Moran was found stabbed and beaten to death in her sweet shop on Collyhurst Road, Collyhurst, Manchester on the evening of Wednesday 28 August 1957.
She had been beaten about the head with a poker, but nothing had been stolen even though there was £14 in a purse. It was noted at the inquest that the killer might have chosen not to steal anything in order to ensure that the crime was not a hanging offence. However, the police said that they did think that robbery was the motive.
see National Archives - HO 332/16 - STA 502/3/33
see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 17 Sept. 1957: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 May 2016.
see "Why Murderer Did Not Rob." Times [London, England] 15 Nov. 1957: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 3 Mar. 2013.
see Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 30 August 1957
see Shields Daily News - Thursday 05 September 1957
see Liverpool Echo - Friday 20 September 1957
see Leicester Evening Mail - Tuesday 03 September 1957
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 10 April 1958
see Daily Mirror - Friday 15 November 1957
see Manchester Evening News - Thursday 10 April 1958
see Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 26 October 1957
see Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 07 September 1957
see Belfast Telegraph - Thursday 19 September 1957
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 04 September 1957
see Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 18 September 1957
see Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 05 September 1957
see Leicester Evening Mail - Tuesday 17 September 1957
see Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 15 November 1957
see Leicester Evening Mail - Saturday 14 September 1957
see Unsolved 1957
