Margaret Maud Mercer

Age: 10

Sex: female

Date: 29 Mar 1948

Place: South Grove, Myerscough, Preston, Lancashire

Margaret Maud Mercer, Richard Thomas Mercer and John Edward Mercer died after eating porridge with rat poison in it.

Margaret Mercer and Richard Mercer died almost immediately after eating the porridge whilst John Mercer died sometime later in hospital.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 30 March 1948

see Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 30 March 1948

see Gloucestershire Echo - Wednesday 14 April 1948

see Unsolved 1948