Age: 22
Sex: female
Date: 2 Feb 1991
Place: Lay-by on the A464 Shifnal to Wolverhampton Road, Shropshire
Janine Downes was found semi-naked, strangled and beaten in a hedge by a lay-by on the A464 at Shifnal on 2 February 1991 at about 9am.
Her post-mortem stated that she had been sexually assaulted and had extensive head injuries and that she had been strangled.
see Shropshire Star
see Birmingham Mail
see Birmingham Live
see Birmingham Live
see Express and Star
see BBC
see Sandwell Evening Mail - Saturday 16 February 1991
see Sandwell Evening Mail - Thursday 14 February 1991
see Sandwell Evening Mail - Tuesday 05 February 1991
see Unsolved 1991
