Age: 45
Sex: male
Date: 30 Mar 1957
Place: River Hull, Hull
John Frederick Boucher died after falling into the docks at Hull. He was found in the River Hull on 30 March 1958.
A 27-year-old man was put on trial after confessing to pushing him in but was found unfit to plead and sent to Broadmoor but when he was later found fit to plead he changed his story and said what he had originally said and that was that John Boucher slipped and he was discharged.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 11 November 1958
see Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 21 October 1958
see Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 21 October 1958
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 21 October 1958
see Peterborough Standard - Friday 08 July 1960
see Unsolved 1957
