Age: 88
Sex: female
Date: 1 May 1992
Place: River Brede, Rye, East Sussex
Florence Jackson was found dead in the River Brede near Rye.
Her niece was tried twice for her murder but acquitted. She was convicted at Hove Crown Court in 1993 and jailed for life but appeal in 1997 and was acquitted and a retrial was ordered for 1998 at which she was again acquitted.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see a Staff Reporter. "Teacher drowned her elderly aunt to gain inheritance." Times [London, England] 10 July 1993: 3. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 10 July 2014.
see Joanna Bale and Frances Gibb. "Freedom for widow, 68, jailed for murder she did not commit." Times [London, England] 6 Feb. 1998: ^. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 10 July 2014.
see Innocent
see Guardian
see Independent
see Holloway Life
see BBC
see Unsolved 1992
