Age: 52
Sex: female
Date: 19 Nov 1951
Place: 129 Francis Avenue, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire
Gertrude Florence Hands was murdered in her home at 129 Francis Avenue on Monday 19 November 1951.
A soldier was convicted of her murder at the Winchester Assizes and sentenced to death but appealed and his conviction was quashed on Tuesday 29 April 1952.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - MEPO 2/9128, DPP 2/2121
see Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 01 December 1951
see Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 24 November 1951
see Portsmouth Evening News - Tuesday 29 April 1952
see Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 24 March 1952
see Daily Herald - Friday 21 March 1952
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 30 April 1952
see Portsmouth Evening News - Tuesday 25 March 1952
see Belfast Telegraph - Friday 21 March 1952
see Daily Herald - Wednesday 30 April 1952
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Tuesday 29 April 1952
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Thursday 01 May 1952
see The People - Sunday 30 March 1952
see Portsmouth Evening News - Saturday 22 December 1951
see Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 26 November 1951
see Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 15 December 1951
see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 21 November 1951
see Unsolved 1951