Age: 70
Sex: female
Date: 23 Oct 1951
Place: Stowell Farm Cottages, West Stowell, Pewsey, Wiltshire
Fanny Tinker was found dead in her thatched cottage in West Stowell on 23 October 1951.
A 30-year-old farm labourer suspected of her murder was later found hanging from a tree by a piece of rope on the night of Thursday 15 November 1951 in a copse on the same estate as Fanny Tinker's cottage was on. He was found in the upper branches of the tree. After its discovery the police stood guard over the body all night until the pathologist could examine it.
see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
see National Archives - MEPO 3/2311 (refernce only)
see Aberdeen Evening Express - Friday 16 November 1951
see Wiltshire Times and Trowbridge Advertiser - Saturday 24 November 1951
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Friday 16 November 1951
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Thursday 25 October 1951
see Belfast Telegraph - Friday 26 October 1951
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 16 November 1951
see Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 25 October 1951
see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Friday 16 November 1951
see Unsolved 1951
