Leonard Thomas

Unsolved Murders

Age: 44

Sex: male

Date: 19 Mar 1949

Place: Cameo Cinema, Bird Street, Wavertree, Liverpool

Leonard Thomas and John Bernard Catterall were murdered at the Cameo Cinema, Bird Street, Wavertreein Liverpool during a robbery on the night of 19 March 1949. A man, George Kelly 27, was convicted of their murders and executed but his conviction was later quashed. Another man, Charles Connolly 26, was also convicted of being his accomplice and sentenced to ten years.

However, it is considered that they were both innocent and had been the victims of a miscarriage of justice and the murders of Leonard Thomas and John Catterall are as such considered unsolved.

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