Age: unknown
Sex: male
Date: 6 Jun 1946
Place: Newton Street, Burton-on-Trent
Brinley Booth was beaten over the head whilst following a man pushing a safe in a push-chair stolen from a cinema and later died.
A burglar or burglars had stolen a safe from the cinema and was taking it away down a street in a push chair when Brinley Booth saw him whilst on patrol and chased but he was hit on the head with a jemmy and later died in hospital.
see discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 6/128, DPP 2/1532, ASSI 89/39
see GMIC
see Staffordshire Archives - C/PC/12/19/1604
see Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 30 November 1956, P6, 41
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Friday 30 November 1956
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 08 January 1957
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 29 November 1956
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 07 December 1956
see National Library of Scotland
see Unsolved 1946
