Age: 6
Sex: male
Date: 18 Feb 1936
Place: South Candren Farm, Inkerman, Renfrewshire
John English was found strangled and assaulted in a field not far from his home.
The police said that he was last seen alive at 7am and it was thought that he was murdered between 7.30am and 8.30am. They said that they thought that he had been murdered about 4.5 hours before his body was found in the field near Candren Farm.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see The Scotsman - Saturday 22 February 1936
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 21 February 1936
see Dundee Courier - Friday 21 February 1936
see Dundee Courier - Wednesday 19 February 1936
see Unsolved 1936