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Ronald Charles Leonard Hawkins

Age: 4 months

Sex: male

Date: 1 Jul 1957

Place: Hosack Road, Wandsworth, London

Ronald Charles Leonard Hawkins was killed at his home.

Ronald Hawkins was found dead in his pram when a doctor called at his mother's flat on Friday 28 June 1957 and his 23-year-old mother bound and gagged.

It was said that she later admitted strangling him.

When she was question, she was said to have said, 'I tried to stop, but I couldn't. I just went on pulling the cord tight'. She was later said to have said, 'It would never have happened if the other woman hadn't kept interfering and trying to separate us. I tried to stop, but I couldn't. I just went on pulling the cord tight'.

She was charged with causing his death to which she pleaded not guilty but the trial result is not known.


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see find.galegroup.com

see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 1 July 1957: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 May 2016.

see Lancashire Evening Post - Monday 01 July 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 01 July 1957

see Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 01 July 1957

see Daily Mirror - Wednesday 17 July 1957