Age: 65
Sex: female
Date: 5 May 1960
Place: 35 West Kinmel Street, Rhyl, North Wales
Frances Alice Knight was found mummified in a cupboard at a house.
She was found to have had a ligature around her neck and the woman whose house it was, a 63-year-old woman, was tried at Denbighshire Assizes in Rutlin on Thursday 13 October 1960 on the charge of having murdered her by strangling her with a stocking, but acquitted. At the trial a Home Office pathologist said that he was in no doubt that there was a ligature round Frances Knight's neck but that he was not in a position to say whether it had been placed there before or after death or even determine the cause of death.
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see National Archives - DPP 2/3098, PS/X/1
see Daily Post
see Daily Express Sat 7 May 1960 Page 9
see Newcastle Journal - Friday 01 July 1960
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 01 July 1960
see Daily News (London) - Friday 01 July 1960
see Newcastle Journal - Tuesday 18 October 1960
see Daily News (London) - Friday 14 October 1960
see Belfast Telegraph - Wednesday 22 June 1960
see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Friday 14 October 1960
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 25 October 1960
see Liverpool Echo - Friday 14 October 1960
see Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 15 October 1960
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 09 June 1960
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 30 June 1960
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 01 June 1960
see Belfast Telegraph - Thursday 13 October 1960 see Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 18 October 1960
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 13 October 1960
see Unsolved 1960
