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December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2015 9:26 pm
by Emma84
Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has any information about the murderer of Lynn Lumb in Leeds on the 9th December 1965. I google searched and found Edward Alan Roche was named in relation to this. Does anyone know if it was him? How long he served? How old was he at the time?

Thanks

Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2015 11:03 pm
by iansmithofotley
Hi Emma84,

This topic has ben mentioned before on Secret Leeds, but there is not much information on it:

http://secretleeds.com/viewtopic.php?t=2212

Ian

Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Fri 25 Dec, 2015 11:19 pm
by liits
Much the same question was asked back in Jan 2010 by John Croggy.
Cardiarms came up with this link;
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.u ... 79&catln=6

Oops iansmithofotley beat me to it while I was having a look on Ancestry. I can't seem to find a birth for Lynn Frances Lumb.

Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2015 1:00 am
by Emma84
Thanks, I did come across that post while searching. I'm more interested in the murderer because he shares the same name with my grandad and also from same area.

Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2015 7:20 am
by uncle mick
From The Times 15th March 1966, seems he had been in trouble before http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.u ... an%20roche
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Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Sat 26 Dec, 2015 7:36 am
by uncle mick
I think this is the same man married to Kathleen Kelly in 1956 & Sandra Thornton in 1977. On searching he seems to have been born in Leeds North in the last quarter of 1932
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Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Sat 09 Jan, 2016 1:08 am
by Emma84
If that is the same man that is my granddad

Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Sat 30 Jan, 2016 5:30 pm
by rob1984
Lynn lumb was my grandmother on my mum side.my mum discovered her dead body on her 6th birthday.there is a gagging order on the trial/court informations,and it isn't available to the public

Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Sat 30 Jan, 2016 9:39 pm
by dogduke
Is it possible to explain why there is a gagging order ?
Is this a common thing in murder cases.
Family search.org shows
Lynn Frances Limb as a passenger on a ship from
Auckland to Southampton in 1958 with an approx birth year
of 1930 which seems to fit to her age when
she died.

Re: December 9th 1965 murder

Posted: Sat 30 Jan, 2016 9:42 pm
by dogduke
Sorry Lumb not Limb as typed above,Android touch like an elephant sometimes