Age: 31
Sex: male
Date: 7 Apr 1957
Place: Red Beck, Hipperholme, Halifax
Betris Vitols was found dead in a brook at Hipperholme on Sunday 7 April 1957.
He was a Latvian and had lived in a hostel. The Warden of the hostel said 'If he was not drunk he was very nice, but sometimes when he was drunk he made a bit of trouble', noting that he was usually drunk at the weekends.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 11 April 1957, p6
see Unsolved 1957