Age: 22
Sex: female
Date: 27 May 1950
Place: Room 12, Laura Hotel, Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London
Agnes May Walsh was asphyxiated in Room 12, of the Laura Hotel in Paddington, London on Saturday 27 May 1950.
She was found battered and strangled with her own nylon stockings in the room which was described as having been in a general state of disorder, indicating that a violent struggle had taken place. There were blood marks found on the wall at the foot of the bed near the wash basin and hairs were found on the carpet in the room which were later sent off for examination. It was said that she had been battered before she was strangled, and her right hand had been damaged defending herself. When her body was examined shortly after it was found it was determined that she had been dead for about four or five hours.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - MEPO 2/8771
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Wednesday 14 June 1950
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 30 May 1950
see Dundee Courier - Tuesday 30 May 1950
see Nottingham Evening Post - Monday 05 June 1950
see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 14 June 1950
see Western Morning News - Wednesday 31 May 1950
see Northampton Chronicle and Echo - Friday 02 June 1950
see Northern Whig - Wednesday 31 May 1950
see Daily Herald - Friday 02 June 1950
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 05 July 1950
see Daily Herald - Tuesday 06 June 1950
see Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 30 May 1950
see Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Wednesday 14 June 1950
see Daily Herald - Thursday 01 June 1950
see Daily Herald - Monday 05 June 1950
see Unsolved 1950
