Age: 63
Sex: female
Date: 28 Nov 1943
Place: John Barleycorn Beerhouse, 518 Commercial Road, Portsmouth
Rose Ada Robinson was found strangled in her pub, the John Barleycorn Beerhouse in Portsmouth on the 29 November 1943.
A 47-year-old man was tried twice for her murder but acquitted. At his first trial at the Winchester Assizes on 14 March 1944 the jury failed to agree. At his second trial at the Old Bailey in London on 4 April 1944 he was acquitted.
see www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 05 April 1944
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 08 March 1944
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Friday 04 February 1944
see Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 18 May 1944
see Birmingham Mail - Wednesday 08 March 1944
see Shields Daily News - Wednesday 05 April 1944
see Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 29 January 1963
see Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 14 February 1963
see "Court Of Appeal." Times [London, England] 12 Dec. 1961: 14. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 23 Apr. 2016.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/1583
see Unsolved 1943
