James Montague Houston

Whilst the case of Dr Robert Clements, his wife Amy Clements and Dr James Houston was technically accounted for at the coroners hearing, the complexity of the events leave scope for suspicion.

Amy Clements was first found dead at her nursing home in Southport on 27 May 1947. James Houston had recorded her death as being due to natural causes, myeloid leukaemia, at a private post-mortem arranged by Robert Clements. However, after further investigation was carried out and it was found that she had died from morphine poisoning, which was also suspected before her death, and when suspicion fell on Robert Clements for having killed her, he apparently committed suicide on 30 May 1947 at his flat. Them, some weeks later, after it became clearer that James Houston had not recorded Amy Clements's death as having been due to morphine poisoning, he too apparently killed himself on 2 June 1947.