Age: 64
Sex: female
Date: 25 Mar 1950
Place: 13 Alexandra Drive, Burnage, Manchester
Florence May de Bussy was found battered to death in her bed with a coal hammer at her home on 25 March 1950.
She had been beaten about the head with six blows resulting in a fractured skull. The police said that they thought that she was murdered shortly after midnight and said that they believed that the motive was robbery, but that they thought that the murderer had only got away with a few pounds.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Western Daily Press - Friday 19 May 1950
see Hull Daily Mail - Thursday 18 May 1950
see Leicester Daily Mercury - Thursday 18 May 1950
see Daily Mirror - Friday 19 May 1950
see Unsolved 1950