Age: 18
Sex: male
Date: 18 Aug 1961
Place: Cannon Street, Middlesbrough
John Joseph Hunt was stabbed in Cannon Street, Middlesbrough on Friday 18 August 1961.
His death started a weekend of violence and hooliganism in Cannon Street. The unrest was described as a race riot and crowds flocked to the street and stoned shops and set fire to a cafe owned by a coloured man. It was said that the police had charged with drawn truncheons before the riot was quelled.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - DPP 2/3324
see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper
see Daily Mirror - Thursday 24 August 1961
see Newcastle Journal - Friday 03 November 1961
see Newcastle Journal - Thursday 24 August 1961
see Newcastle Journal - Thursday 14 September 1961
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 21 September 1961
see Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 13 September 1961
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Wednesday 23 August 1961
see Belfast Telegraph - Thursday 14 September 1961
see Daily Herald - Tuesday 07 November 1961
see Unsolved 1961
