https://www.wikiwirral.co.uk/forums...her-back-to-life-in-the-1960s#Post301518I came across this old thread and thought I'd look into it more. I've withheld the surnames for the protection of any living relatives. After reading 30+ newspaper reports these are the facts.
Mrs Emily ??? died on the 18th October 1960 of a stroke in hospital, she was 69 years old and a widow. She lived in Durley Dr, Prenton.
She was buried on the 22nd October in Bebington Cemetery.
Her son Raymond James ???, 33 of Cole St, went into Well Lane Police Station to seek permission to try and bring his mother back to life using electronics.
He was told he could not play about with bodies and would get in serious trouble should he do so.
After the funeral he went to Bebington Cemetery in a hired car and removed his mother from the grave, he replaced the coffin in the grave and made it look as if it had never been disturbed so it wouldn't be noticed.
He took his mother to an empty house in Claughton Rd and tried to revive her by feeding her sugar, lime juice and milk On October 29th he connected an Electrical Flex from a socket to his mothers foot in an attempt to bring her back to life. The body was found on December 17th 1960 in the empty house.
At the trial Mr Justice McNair said Raymond James ??? should not be tried as a criminal but as a mentally ill person.
Dr Benadict Finkleman report stated Raymond James was suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia.
Raymond James ??? was committed to Deva Hospital, Chester.
I checked the burial records for Emily and she was buried Oct 22 1960, there's an added note stating, body unlawfully removed by son.
Emily was cremated at Landican Cemetery, 24th December, 1960.
A person of the same age and name Raymond James ??? died in a Liverpool Nursing Home in 2011.
