Martha Giles

Age: 46

Sex: female

Date: 12 Feb 1959

Place: New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton

Martha Giles was found beaten and stabbed to death in the grounds of New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton on Thursday 12 February 1959.

A 31-year-old Indian doctor was tried for her murder but acquitted at the Stafford Assizes on Friday 17 July 1959.

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

see National Archives - ASSI 6/182, DPP 2/2918

see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper

see Belfast Telegraph - Saturday 14 February 1959

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Friday 17 July 1959

see Western Mail - Thursday 19 February 1959

see Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 18 March 1959

see Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 09 May 1959

see Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 12 February 1959

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 12 February 1959

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 13 July 1959

see Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 18 March 1959

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 18 February 1959

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 16 July 1959

see Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 14 July 1959

see Unsolved 1959