Eileen Edith Lockhart

Unsolved Murders

Age: 5

Sex: female

Date: 8 Feb 1948

Place: Friendly House, Chiswell Street, Finsbury, EC1

Eileen Edith Lockhart was found dead in the basement of a bombed out building on Chiswell Street in Finsbury three miles from her home on the night of 11 February 1948.

The pathologists report showed that she had been strangled. However, the pathologist noted that Eileen Lockhart had not been interfered with. He said that she had been dead for over 48 hours and had died from asphyxia caused by manual strangulation.

*map pointers are rough estimates based on known location details as per Place field above.

see discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

see True Crime Library

see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 12 Feb. 1948: 4. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 4 Mar. 2013.

see National Archives - MEPO 3/2997

see Criminal Calendar - Richard Harrison - 1951

see Daily Herald - Saturday 15 May 1948

see Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 14 February 1948

see Daily Herald - Saturday 01 May 1948

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 12 February 1948

see Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 05 April 1948

see Daily Herald - Monday 26 April 1948

see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Thursday 12 February 1948

see Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Wednesday 14 April 1948

see Shields Daily News - Friday 13 February 1948

see Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 13 February 1948

see Gloucester Citizen - Wednesday 14 April 1948

see Daily Herald - Friday 13 February 1948

see Western Morning News - Thursday 15 April 1948

see Hull Daily Mail - Friday 13 February 1948

see Unsolved 1948