Age: 24
Sex: male
Date: 13 Aug 1949
Place: Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham
Cyril Ellis died after being attacked in Cannon Hill Park on 12 August 1949. He died the following day in hospital.
He had been in the park with his girlfriend at the time when he was attacked. They had been sitting together in a secluded part of the park on the Friday night in the moonlight at the time. His girlfriend received miner head injuries and left the hospital on the Saturday night.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see The Scotsman - Friday 09 September 1949
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Saturday 10 September 1949
see Daily Mirror - Friday 09 September 1949
see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 16 August 1949
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Thursday 18 August 1949
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 15 August 1949
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 01 July 1950
see Unsolved 1949
