EDWARD DEVLIN & ALFRED BURNS - A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE?
EDWARD DEVLIN & ALFRED BURNS - A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE? Beatrice Alice Rimmer was 54 year old widow who lived alone at 7 Cranborne Road opposite Sefton General Hospital, on Smithdown Road in Liverpool and who was reputed to keep money in her house. Beatrice had visited her son on the Sunday afternoon and was seen returning to her home that evening. On Monday, August the 20th, 1951, her next door neighbour, Jack Grossman, alerted Alice’s son Thomas to the suspicious scene outside his mothers front door. There was a bottle of milk on the doorstep, delivered around 6a.m., but it was now long after midday. Alice, as she was known, had not been seen all morning and Mr. Grossman had become concerned about her welfare. Thomas couldn’t get any reply but looking through the letterbox could see his mother lying in a pool of blood. At the back of the house a window had been broken. Alice had been attacked with a cosh and had 15 separate wounds which indicated that she might have been t