Albert Edward Pannell

Albert Edward Pannell died from chronic tuberculosis of the lungs on 9 August 1956 following a fight with his son-in-law, a 43-year-old haulage contractor, at his pub on the night of 5/6 July 1956. The haulage contractor was tried for his manslaughter but acquitted.

The haulage contractor had lived in Queen's Road in Gosport. He had married Albert Pannell's daughter in June 1954 but it was heard that the marriage was not a happy one and in June 1956 the haulage contractor's wife left him and went to live with her parents at the Thatched House public house in Beach Street, taking their 12-month-old daughter with them.