Jacqueline Boyle

Jacqueline Boyle died in a fire at the Philbeach Convalescent Home in Station Road, Hythe on 1 April 1962.

However, it wasn't known how the fire started. A box of matches was later found between the folds and feathers of the damp mattress.

Jacqueline Boyle had been asleep in a cot in room 15 at the time.

The Coroner said that the fire could have been started in one of three ways.

1. Somebody went into the room to have a look at Jacqueline Boyle while smoking a cigarette and the end dropped off into the bedding.
2. Jacqueline Boyle might have had a box of matches in the bed that she had picked up.
3. Someone had deliberately set fire to the cot.