FOI 668/11: Unresolved Murders

Date Victim Location Nature of offence Persons Active Investigation

Prosecuted 29 May 1946 ROBERT ODEON CINEMA UNION ROBERT JACKSON, MANAGER OF THE ODEON CINEMA UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH PARRINGTON STREET WAS IN HIS OFFICE WHEN BETWEEN 1830 - 1845 HOURS REGULAR REVIEWS JACKSON SHOTS WERE HEARD. HE WAS FOUND ON THE FLOOR OF 32 YEARS HIS OFFICE HAVING SUFFERED A FATAL WOUND TO THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS HEAD. A CARTRIDGE WAS RECOVERED FROM THE SCENE

7 January GEORGE BARRON LLOYDS BANK, GEORGE BLACK, MANAGER OF THE LLOYDS BANK WAS UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1949 BLACK KNOWLE, SHOT AND KILLED BY AN UNKNOWN MALE WHO HAD A REGULAR REVIEWS 52 YEARS BRISTOL PISTOL DURING THE COURSE OF A ROBBERY AT THE BANK. £1.430 WAS STOLEN

30 June GERTRUDE O'LEARY 13, THOMAS STREET, GERTRUDE O’LEARY WAS THE PROPRIETOR OF AN OFF UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1949 64 YEARS , LICENCE BUSINESS THAT SHE RAN FROM HER HOME REGULAR REVIEWS BRISTOL ADDRESS. SHE WAS FEROCIOUSLY BEATEN BY A SERIES OF BLOWS TO THE HEAD AND A STRIP OF MATERIAL HAD BEEN TORN OFF FROM HER OVERALL AND USED TO TIE TIGHTLY AROUND HER NECK.

20 June JUNE SHEASBY SNUFF MILLS PARK ROY AND JUNE SHEASBY LEFT HOME 20 JUNE 1957 TO UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1957 7 YEARS BRISTOL PLAY AT SNUFF MILLS. THEIR BODIES WERE FOUND IN REGULAR REVIEWS ROY SHEASBY SHALLOW GRAVES AT SNUFF MILLS ON 1 JULY 1957 5 YEARS

28 June LOUISE DUNNE BRITTANIA RD LOUISE DUNNE DIED FROM STRANGULATION/ASPHYIXIA UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1967 74 YRS EASTON. AND HAD BEEN SEXUALLY ASSAULTED. HER HOME HAD REGULAR REVIEWS BEEN ENTERED AND SEARCHED

31 March PHILLIP GREEN GOLF PHILLIPS BODY WAS FOUND BY A DOG HANDLER . HIS UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1970 11 YEARS COURSE BODY WAS LOCATED UNDER TREES ON THE GOLF REGULAR REVIEWS SHIREHAMPTON COURSE. HE HAD BEEN HIT ABOUT THE HEAD SEVERAL BRISTOL TIMES AND HAD SEVERE HEAD INJURIES POSSIBLY INFLICTED BY A BRANCH OF A TREE FOUND NEARBY. UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 19 January GLENIS THE DOWNS NR TO AN OFFENDER WAS APPARENTLY DISTURBED BY A REGULAR REVIEWS 1974 CARRUTHERS THE AVENUE, PASSERBY IN THE ACT OF KILLING GLENIS AND MADE 20 YEARS NORTHCOTE RD OFF. DEATH WAS DUE TO STRANGULATION NEAR THE ZOO.CLIFTON 5 August SUSAN DONAGHUE 45 DOWNLEAZE SUSAN DONAGHUE DIED FROM HEAD INJURIES UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1976 44 YEARS APPARENTLY CAUSED BY A POLICE TRUNCHEON. HER REGULAR REVIEWS BRISTOL HOME HAD BEEN BURGLED WHILST SHE SLEPT IN BED

13 January BERYL CULVERWELL "WOODHOLME" MRS CULVERWELL WAS FOUND MURDERED IN THE UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1978 52 YEARS WIDCOMBE HILL GARAGE OF HER HOME. SHE DIED FROM STAB WOUNDS REGULAR REVIEWS BATH AND SEVERE HEAD INJURIES HER BODY HAD BEEN TIED WITH TWINE.

28 August WENDY JENKINS 32 BUILDING SITE AT WENDY JENKINS WAS A WORKING PROSTITUTE WHO UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1979 YEARS BACKFIELDS PLIED HER TRADE IN ST PAULS SHE HAD BEEN STABBED REGULAR REVIEWS BRISTOL. AND HAD SEVERE HEAD INJURIES. SHE WAS FOUND PARTIALLY BURIED IN A BUILDING SITE SANDPIT.

31 October DEREK GRAIN REAR MR GRAIN WAS FOUND MURDERED HE HAD SUSTAINED UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1980 39 YEARS 8 BERKELEY SQUARE HEAD INJURIES POTENTIALLY HAVING BEEN HIT WITH A REGULAR REVIEWS CLIFTON TRAFFIC CONE

22 October WINIFRED MAY BAYMEAD MEADOW MRS LOCKE WAS MURDERED AT HER HOME DEATH WAS UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1983 LOCKE NORTH PETHERTON. DUE TO ASPHYXIA DUE TO STRANGULATION. REGULAR REVIEWS 80 YEARS

09 June MELANIE ROAD ST STEPHENS COURT MELANIE ROAD HAD BEEN WALKING HOME ALONE UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1984 17 YEARS LANSDOWN WHEN SHE WAS ATTACKED IN THE STREET. SHE DIED REGULAR REVIEWS BATH FROM MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS NUMEROUS TRAILS OF BLOOD WERE FOUND AT OR NEAR THE SCENE

12 October MARK YENDALL CITY DOCKS MARK YENDALL WAS ABDUCTED WITH HIS CAR FROM UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1984 32 YEARS WELSH BACK THE CARPARK AT TEMPLEMEADS, HE WAS TAKEN TO REGULAR REVIEWS BRISTOL THE CITY DOCKS. YENDALL DIED FROM HEAD INJURIES AND STRANGULATION. HIS BODY WAS THEN THROWN IN THE DOCKS. 14 October SHELLEY CAMERON LONG LANE ON 11 JUNE 1984 SHELLEY MORGAN WENT OUT UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1984 MORGAN BACKWELL WALKING HAVING DROPPED HER CHILDREN AT THE REGULAR REVIEWS 34 YEARS BRISTOL SCHOOL BUS STOP. HER NAKED BODY WAS FOUND IN OCTOBER THAT YEAR IN A SHALLOW GRAVE IN A REMOTE COPSE. SHE DIED FROM MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS.

21 April LINDA GUEST PERRINPIT LANE LINDA GUEST WAS A PROSTITUTE WORKING IN THE ST UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1985 @JACKIE WAINES FRAMPTON PAULS AREA . SHE HAD BEEN SEEN PLYING HER TRADE REGULAR REVIEWS 35 YEARS COTTERELL SHORTLY BEFORE HER BODY WAS FOUND.

1 October VIOLET MILSOM 31A RD THE BODY OF MRS MILSOM WAS FOUND AT HER HOME. UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1985 62 YEARS ST PAULS SHE DIED FROM A LIGATURE TO THE NECK HER BODY REGULAR REVIEWS BRISTOL HAD BEEN MUTILATED

28 March HELEN FLEET WORLEBURY WOODS THE BODY OF MRS FLEET WAS FOUND WITH HEAD UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1987 66 YEARS WORLEBURY HILL INJURIES AND STAB WOUNDS. SHE WAS MURDERED REGULAR REVIEWS WESTON SUPER MARE WHILST TAKING HER DOG FOR A WALK .

12 January MICHAEL FAHY WASTE GROUND FAHY WAS A HEAVY DRINKER / VAGRANT. HE DIED OF UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1989 33 YEARS PICTON ST, HEAD INJURIES FOLLOWING A SEVERE BEATING. REGULAR REVIEWS ST PAULS BRISTOL

28 July GEORGE TYSON BRISTOL/ MR THORLEY WAS SEEN TO HAVE SEVERE BRUISING TO UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1989 THORLEY GLOUCESTER AREA HIS FACE , HE TOLD FRIENDS THAT HE HAD BEEN REGULAR REVIEWS 46 YEARS ROBBED IN GLOUCESTER . HIS CONDITIONED WORSENED AND HE DIED ON 29 JULY 1989 DEATH WAS DUE TO RUPTURE OF THE SMALL BOWEL. HIS PROPERTY ALLEGEDLY STOLEN DURING THE ROBBERY WAS FOUND ABANDONED IN THE STREET IN BRISTOL.

17 KEITH BURGESS BASEMENT FLAT BURGESS DIED OF HEAD INJURIES/STAB WOUNDS UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH December 38 YEARS 10 DUCHESS RD HAVING BEEN KILLED AT HIS HOME A MAN WEARING A REGULAR REVIEWS 1989 CLIFTON BOBBLE HAT WAS SEEN LEAVING HIS FLAT SHORTLY BRISTOL BEFORE HIS BODY WAS DISCOVERED.

28 January JOHN KILCOYNE 3, HEPBURN HOUSE DECEASED FOUND IN A BED SIT WITH A STAB WOUND TO UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 1995 47 YEARS HEPBURN ROAD HIS NECK. HE HAD BEEN DRINKING HEAVILY ON THE REGULAR REVIEWS ST PAULS. NIGHT OF HIS DEATH WITH TWO ASSOCIATES. 9 June 1996 MELANIE HALL CADILLACS NIGHT MELANIE HALL WAS REPORTED MISSING BY HER UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 25 YEARS CLUB BATH PARENTS ON 10 JUNE 1996 HAVING BEEN OUT AT REGULAR REVIEWS CADILLACS NIGHT CLUB AND NEVER RETURNING HOME. HER BODY WAS FOUND IN OCTOBER 2009 AT JUNCTION 14 ON THE M5.

25 June ANNE MYRING HOME ADDRESS MRS MYRINGS BODY HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND . HER UNRESOLVED NOT ACTIVE 1997 46 YEARS , HUSBAND WAS CHARGED WITH HER MURDER BUT WAS BRISTOL ACQUITTED BY THE JURY

10 June CHRISTOPHER PAUL EASTON WAY HEWITT WAS MURDERED BY A NUMBER OF JAMAICAN UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 2001 HEWITT BRISTOL NATIONALS HAVING BEEN LURED TO THE JOLLY ROGER REGULAR REVIEWS 18 YEARS PUBLIC HOUSE TO BE MURDERED BY STABBING

03 March UNIDENTIFIED MALE HALSE LANE NEAR HUMAN REMAINS HAVE NEVER BEEN IDENTIFIED AND UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 2002 REMAINS THE VILLAGE OF NO-ONE EVER CONVICTED. CAUSE OF DEATH NOT REGULAR REVIEWS ESTIMATED AGE WINSFORD ESTABLISHED. 20 - 30 YEARS SOMERSET.

13 March EVAN JONES STOKES CROFT MR JONES DIED OF HEAD INJURIES RECEIVED WHEN HE UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH 2002 46 YEARS MONTPELIER WAS ATTACKED IN STOKES CROFT BY ONE OR MORE REGULAR REVIEWS YOUTH.

13 STEPHEN HENRY PARK ROW GANG RELATED SHOOTING: STEPHEN HENRY WAS SHOT UNRESOLVED NOT ACTIVE September 32 YEARS CLIFTON DEAD AT POINT BLANK RANGE HAVING LEFT THE LEVEL 2003 BRISTOL NIGHTCLUB AND RETURNED TO HIS VEHICLE. 8 PERSONS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO MURDER. ALL BUT 2 WERE ACQUITTED. RETRIAL CARRIED OUT AND THE LAST TWO WERE ALSO ACQUITTED

16 DEAN MYLES CLUB UK, GANG RELATED SHOOTING: DEAN MYLES WAS IN UNRESOLVED NOT ACTIVE September 19 YEARS STOKES CROFT NIGHTCLUB WITH FRIENDS. A GROUP OF MEN ENTERED 2006 BRISTOL THE CLUB AND WALKED UP TO MYLES AND HE WAS SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE. COLAPSED AND DIED ON THE PREMISES. 4 PEWRSONS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO MURDER, ONE FOUND NOT GUILTY AT FIRST TRIAL AND NO VERDICT COULD BE REACHED ON OTHER THREE. FOLLOWING INTRODUCTION ON CRIMINAL EVIDENCE (WITNESS ANONYMITY) ACT 2008 NO EVIDENCE WAS LATER OFFERRED AGAINST REMAINING 3 DEFENDANTS. 28 DEAN PAUL JEFFERY ATTACKED NEAR TO DEAN JEFFERY RETURNED FROM THE LOCAL SHOPS TO UNDETECTED ACTIVE WITH September 41 YEARS RIDGEWAY PARADE, HIS HOME ADDRESS WITH A HEAD INJURY. HE WAS REGULAR REVIEWS 2008 UNABLE TO GIVE HIS PARTNER ANY DETAILS OF THE BRISTOL ASSAULT BEFORE LAPSING INTO UNCONSCIOUSNESS. HE DIED AT HOSPITAL THE FOLLOWING WEEK.

01 January PAUL JAMES KELLY LONGACRE TAVERN PAUL KELLY FOLLOWING AN ARGUMENT WAS SEEN TO UNRESOLVED NOT ACTIVE 2007 32 YEARS LONDON ROAD BE HIT OVER THE HEAD WITH A MOBILE PHONE BEFORE BATH RECEIVING BLOWS TO THE STOMACH. KELLY FELL TO THE FLOOR, HITTING HIS HEAD ON A CONCRETE BOLLARD, AND WAS THEN KICKED WHILST HE LAY ON THE GROUND. NATHAN DIXON WAS CHARGED WITH MURDER BUT WAS ACQUITTED AT COURT.

29 April 2010 BARRY RUBERRY CROSSING COTTAGE, BARRY RUBBERY RETURNED HOME FROM A MEETING UNDETECTED ACTIVE 69 YEARS LATTERIDGE ROAD, AND ENTERED HIS PROPERTY VIA THE REAR. HE WOULD IRON ACTON APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN ATTACKED BY ONE OR MORE PERSONS. HIS BODY WAS FOUND LYING FACE DOWN. HIS HANDS WERE TIED BEHIND HIS BACK WITH AN ELECTRICAL LEAD AND CABLE TIES.

03 July 2011 RICO GORDON STAPLETON ROAD RICO GORDON TRAVELLED WITH FRIENDS FROM UNDETECTED ACTIVE 21 YEARS BRISTOL LONDON TO ATTEND THE ST PAULS CARNIVAL. FOLLOWING DRINKS IN A PUBLIC HOUSE. WHILST WALKING IN STAPLETON ROAD TWO GROUPS OF YOUTHS CONFRONT EACH OTHER AND GUNS ARE FIRED. GORDON RECEIVED A FATAL WOUND TO THE HEAD DURING THE EXCHANGE OF FIRE.