Age: 69
Sex: female
Date: 21 Mar 1957
Place: 40 Stafford Street, Burton-on-Trent
Rose Sharratt died after receiving a head injury and a broken arm at her home. It was thought that she had received her injury on 11 March 1957. She was admitted to hospital on 15 March and she died there on 21 March 1957.
Her son, a railway porter, was tried for her murder but was acquitted. It was heard that there was evidence that she had suffered from heart failure and her son denied having hit her, saying that she just fell.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 6/154, ASSI 89/53
see Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 04 July 1957
see Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail - Thursday 04 July 1957
see Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 04 July 1957
see Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 04 July 1957
see Western Mail - Thursday 04 July 1957
see Unsolved 1957
