Age: 7
Sex: female
Date: 1 Jul 1957
Place: Stapleton Glen, Grove Woods, Snuff Mills Park, Bristol
Royston Sheasby and June Sheasby were found dead in a shallow grave near the bank of the River Frome in a wood at Snuff Mills on Monday 1 July 1957. They had gone missing after having gone out to see some ponies grazing in a field at Wickham Glen, a beauty spot, 11 days earlier on Thursday 20 June 1957.
Their murders were known as the 'Babes in the Woods' murders. The place where they were found was referred to as Stapleton Glen and Grove Woods and was near Snuff Mills by the River Frome near to Stapleton and Stapleton Mental Hospital.
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see National Archives - HO 332/16 - STA 502/3/33
see BBC
see Bristol Post
see Bristol 24/7
see "Murder Verdict On Two Children." Times [London, England] 14 Sept. 1957: 3. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 May 2016.
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 02 July 1957
see Northern Whig - Monday 01 July 1957
see Daily Herald - Tuesday 02 July 1957
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 02 July 1957
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 10 July 1957
see Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 03 July 1957
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 17 July 1957
see Daily Mirror - Saturday 29 June 1957
see Sunday Mirror - Sunday 30 June 1957
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 09 July 1957
see Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 21 July 1957
see Belfast Telegraph - Friday 13 September 1957
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 03 July 1957
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 01 September 1964
see Birmingham Daily Post - Monday 12 October 1964
see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Saturday 10 October 1964
see Unsolved 1957
