Age: 21 months
Sex: female
Date: 11 Jan 1957
Place: Coppins Caravan Site, Coopers End, Takeley, Essex
Ann Watson died two days after her father hit her on the head whilst he was trying to coax her to eat.
Her father was tried for her murder but the judge directed the jury to acquit him of both murder and manslaughter after the prosecution presented their case and the defence said that it would not be safe or right to allow the case to go further.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see National Archives - ASSI 36/256, DPP 2/2780
see Birmingham Daily Post - Friday 28 March 1958
see Unsolved 1957