in and around Bolton, include two young girls found strangled, a mum who was stabbed to death in her own home and a pensioner who was beaten around the head with a blunt instrument and set on fire.
MyBolton has dug into the archives to tell their stories once again. After finishing work, Minnie Stott mentioned going to the pictures to her dad when she left the family home in Clarence Street, Bolton on November 16, 1940.At 8pm, 15 minutes after she left the house, she called into the United Cow Products restaurant where her mother waited tables - serving up dishes of tripe, cowheel and ox tail to customers.
Three-and-a-half hours later, while making routine checks, PC Harry C Brooks found Minnie strangled in a yard near Bradshawgate.It is.
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