Age: 25
Sex: male
Date: 5 May 1946
Place: River Nene, Alwalton Locks, Huntingdonshire
Robert Joseph de Quincey was found dead in the River Nene.
He had earlier been involved on an assault with the police with another 18-year-old youth. They were being taken to a police house in a car when they attacked the policeman, stabbing him and hitting him with a starting handle and ash stick and then running off.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Bedfordshire Times and Independent - Friday 24 May 1946, p5
see Bedfordshire Times and Independent - Friday 24 May 1946
see Bedfordshire Times and Independent - Friday 10 May 1946
see Bedfordshire Times and Independent - Friday 17 May 1946
see Unsolved 1946