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Walter Rowland: The strange case of the Stockport pubgoer sentenced to death twice... after a murder at Deansgate

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When the body of 40-year-old Olive Balchin was found abandoned in a bomb site in central Manchester it sent shockwaves through the city.

It was a brutal, bloody, and well publicised murder which soon led police to the door of a labourer from the Midlands called Walter Graham Rowland.

Rowland was convicted of killing the middle-aged woman following a brief trial in December 1946 and subsequently executed at Strangeways Prison in February 1947.

But shrouds of mystery and rumour still cloud this case even now, more than 70 years after its conclusion, and it is often brought up in arguments about the death penalty and wrongful convictions.

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