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Thread: Childwall/Thingwall Road area murder about 1965/67

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    Default Childwall/Thingwall Road area murder about 1965/67

    Anybody remember this? A young man aged about 18/19 was convicted and I think sent to Broadmoor.

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    Lesley Hobbs was the girl Killed. Early 1960's

    Last house by the Railway Bridge.
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    Wasn't there a thread on this? I sure I remember reading something on Yo.

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    Hello burkhilly

    Yes it's familiar to me as well. I tried to search for it but unfortunately there are too many threads and posts about local murders... which says something too, I am afraid.

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    I lived near there as a kid ( in the 70's ) everyone knew about it.

    The young girl was buried in All Saints Church.

    As kids we would go along and tidy the grave, put flowers on. A lot of kids did.
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    Yes it was indeed Lesley Hobbs 12 years who was battered to death with a standard ash tray and stabbed in the lounge of her house in 1962. The house is the last on the left as you go down Childwall Valley Road and before the railway bridge (long extension on the side of the house). She had been babysitting her 3 siblings whilst here mother and father had gone out one sunday evening. Over 500 officers were brought in including for the first time, officers from as far away as the west midlands. The Killer was 15 years from Craighurst Road on the Belle Vale estate off Hartsbourne Avenue. Throughout his remand he was held at Walton prison. He was convicted of Manslaughter and not Murder.

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    Second up fom the bottom murder cases

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/c...TID=398000&j=1

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    http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http:/...OPswgXxM_LfpVw

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    I remember the date on her headstone was 8th or 9th December.

    On the bottom it reads " Suffer Little Children To Come Onto Me "

    Not been there in over 25 years but it has always stuck with me.
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    It was thought that both this killing and the murder of Maureen Dutton (The Tki murder) less than a year earlier may have been connected due to the houses and their proximity to the Liverpool Loopline.

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    How do you kill somone with a slipper?

    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/c...accessmethod=5

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    Thank you to everybody for your response, I did not expect to hear anything so quickly.
    I did not realise she had only been 12 years old,what a terrible thing.
    But I am sure Rix was older than 15, he was a year older than me and I had already left school and started work.

    My reason for raising the subject I have to be honest was pure curiosity, I had known Rix a few years before this happened and now could not find any record on the internet or anywhere.
    As I said I seem to remember that he was sent to Broadmoor, so presumably was found to be insane. And by now has no doubt been free for many years.

    So thank you again to everybody for your help, R.I.P. Lesley Hobbs, and Rix if you are not already in hell - well God speed.

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    Have looked at the National Archives and am obviously wrong about the dates and his age.
    Diminished responsibility? Well to do something like that .....but he seemed sane enough to me and others who knew him.


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    Tell us more NR. What happened to him afterwards? He was caught by good old fashioned detective work by officers doing door to door enquiries.

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    Have looked at the National Archives
    Heh,but its not viewable till 2049...so how did you manage to have a butchers?

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    What happened to him afterwards? not a clue chum sorry, I would be interested to know myself.
    I knew him a few years before and he thought of himself as a hardcase, but didn't impress anyone else as one.
    Last time I remember seeing him was in the Avenue picture house in Edge Hill, he was sat sprawled across about 3 seats and coming across as a bit aggressive/truculent. He didn't seem to recognise me so I didn't crack on. That must have been within a year of the murder.

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    No I meant looked at what shows on the link. (Ref the National Archives)

    Sorry I am new on here and not the most computer literate person in the world.

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