Age: 22
Sex: male
Date: 9 Apr 1961
Place: Bath Road, Sidbury, Worcester
Patrick Mulligan was stabbed in a public lavatory in Worcester on the night of 8 April 1961.
A 39-year-old marine engineer of no fixed abode was tried for his murder at the Staffordshire Assizes but acquitted Thursday 13 July 1961. The jury came to their decision without hearing the closing speeches or the summing up.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - MEPO 2/10437, ASSI 6/234, DPP 2/3282
see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper
see Halesowen News
see Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 10 April 1961
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 29 May 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 13 July 1961
see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 12 July 1961
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 30 May 1961
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 13 July 1961
see Unsolved 1961