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Murder of Jacqueline Thomas
Jacqueline Mary Thomas (1945 or 1946 – 18 August 1961) was a 15-year-old biscuit factory worker from Alum Rock, Birmingham, England who was sexually assaulted and strangled after disappearing on 18 August 1961. Her body was discovered a week later close to her home, and the murder sparked a manhunt involving several hundred police officers. A suspect was identified at the time, but there was insufficient evidence to charge him, and the crime remained unsolved for over four decades until a cold case review in the 2000s. In 2007, 70-year-old Anthony Hall – already serving a life sentence for the murder of another teenager – was charged with Thomas's murder. However, a judge subsequently ruled the charge should be stayed owing to the length of time that had passed since the incident. Hall subsequently died in prison.
==Background==
Jacqueline Thomas worked at Birmingham's Hughes Biscuit Factory,〔 and lived with her family in the Alum Rock area of the city, where she was one of eight sisters.〔 On Friday, 18 August 1961 she attended a funfair at nearby Ward End with friends, and failed to return home afterwards.〔 She was last seen alive at around 10:30 pm talking to a young man. Her family reported her missing when she did not return home. A week later on 25 August 1961, a dog walker found her body hidden in undergrowth at disused allotments close to her house in Everton Road.〔 She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Police believed she had been dead for several days, and that her death had occurred at the allotments. They found no evidence of a struggle.
The ensuing murder investigation involved several hundred police officers who visited more than 1,000 homes in the area, and conducted interviews with local residents, as well as Thomas's colleagues and workers from the fair where she had last been seen. Police launched a poster appeal, while a request for information was made at the city's St Andrew's Stadium during a football match between Birmingham City and Leicester City.
Witnesses recalled Thomas speaking with a young man at the fair; he was subsequently identified as 24-year-old Anthony Hall, a married father of one. He admitted being at the fairground with Jacqueline Thomas on the evening of her death, and that they had embraced and kissed, but he denied killing her. He asked his mother to provide a false alibi, because he did not want his wife to know he had been "larking about" with girls.〔 Although he was considered as a suspect, Hall was not charged with the murder as there was no evidence linking him to the crime.〔 At an inquest later that year he was called as one of 53 witnesses to give evidence, asking his solicitor to put him in the witness box: "Though he may not be an angel, he wants the finger of suspicion which has been levelled at him removed". A jury subsequently recorded a verdict of "murder by some person or persons unknown".〔
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