Unsolved Murders in South Yorkshire by Scott C Lornax

Author:Scott C Lornax
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers
ISBN: 9781473822436
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Published: 2013-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

A Beast at Large: The Murder of Anne Dunwell (1964)

nne Elizabeth Dunwell was just 13 years old when her life was tragically taken on Wednesday, 6 May 1964. She had visited her aunt, Irene Varah, in Bramley a few miles outside of Rotherham, where she had originally planned to spend the night because there was no school the following day as local elections meant her school was used as a polling station. But instead, Anne decided to catch the bus back to Whiston where she lived with her grandparents, at Sandringham Avenue. Her mother had died and her father lived in Attercliffe in Sheffield, seeing his daughter at weekends when she visited and collected her ten shilling pocket money. Her grandfather worked nights as a gatekeeper at Hadfield’s steel manufacturers, but Anne was looking forward to seeing her grandmother, who she knew would be at home. That evening Anne had played with friends in the Howard Road area and went to a fish and chip shop, but by 9.15pm she was ready to return home. She headed to the bus stop near the Ball Inn, intending to catch the 9.29pm bus. Anne should have arrived home at 9.40pm but she never made it. She was seen waiting for the bus by several passers-by, but when asked at a later date, the driver and none of the bus passengers, including a group of bingo players, could recall the teenage girl who looked much younger than her years and was wearing a light-blue coat. It was later established that Anne never boarded the bus and she certainly never made it back to Whiston.

It was on the Thursday morning of Election Day that a man driving to work brought the awful crime to light. What initially appeared to lorry driver Tommy Williams to be a tailor’s dummy was actually the partially-clothed body of a teenage girl dumped in one of the most undignified ways possible. It was at the bottom of a dung heap on farmland in Slade Hooton Lane, a winding country lane between Carr and Slade Hooton, three miles from Maltby. The shocking truth was realised when Williams returned half an hour later with his brother-in-law, Bill Poulter.

Williams described the discovery to reporters: ‘I was driving down the lane when I saw what I thought was a tailor’s dummy with its feet in the hedge and back on the manure heap. I thought it was a practical joke and I drove on. When I got to work I told my brother-in-law about what I had seen and to make sure we drove back. We went within two yards of the body which had a stocking round its neck, and noticed that the legs were badly bruised. There were also bruises on the face. The arms seemed as if they had been placed behind the back.’ Williams added that there was no clothing visible and that there were no footprints or tyre tracks at the scene as far as he could tell.

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