Age: 0
Sex: female
Date: 12 Jan 1948
Place: Ticknall Lane, Swadlincote
The body of a newly born female child was found in a sack in Ticknall Lane.
It was found by a woman from Bromley Street in Derby who had stopped her car in Ticknall Lane, described as a lonely lane, to exercise her dogs. She said that she then found the naked body of the child lying wrapped up in sacking behind a bush.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Monday 12 January 1948
see Unsolved 1948
