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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.
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A bit more detail about the events:- The son said, 'As soon as my mother died I thought of trying to bring her back with electric treatment. I saw a policeman at Well Lane and told him I thought there was a chance of bringing her back to life but he said, 'You don't want to be messing about with a body'. I went to my mother's funeral from Leighton Road and after it was over I decided to have a go at bringing her back to life. On the same afternoon I went to Duke Street Garage and hired a car for one day and about 6 o'clock that night I went to Bebington Cemetery. I climbed over the wall with my spade and dug the grave. I opened the coffin with the spade and took mother out. I filled the grave in again and took mother in the back of the car to an empty house in Borough Road by Baileys Furniture Shop. I couldn't get into the house because it was locked so I had to leave mother in an outhouse at the back. The back door was open when I got here so I locked it and climbed out. I took the day off work on the Monday and went to three estate agents in Hamilton Square to find an empty house. At one I saw a house advertised for sale at 108 Claughton Road so I asked about buying it. I got the keys off the man to view the house'.
He went on to say that he got the keys to view the property for a few hours and then used his firm's van to collect his mother's body and took her to 108 Claughton Road and put her body in the kitchen.
He then said, 'I left mother covered with a blanket and next day, during dinner time, I mixed a plasma in a kind of lemonade bottle. I made it with a sugar that I melted, lime juice and milk. I then took it to Claughton Road to feed mother, and gave her some. Nearly every lunch time I went back that week and gave her some more plasma, but on the Saturday I started the electrical treatment. I rigged up a wire in the room and attached it to her foot. The electricity must have shorted because when I went back the next day I found it had done some damage to her foot. I have not had much chance to try any other treatment since that day. I was going to buy a house with the money mother left me and I was going to get good equipment to give mother proper electric treatment. She was a good mother to me and I was doing my best for her'.
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 Having a peep at Wiki, this caught my eye. How bizzare . Poor woman, although she might have been hovering..... we'll never know ! Can't imagine why nobody else has found this rather amusing. (or is it meant to be sad ?)
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Granny, its meant to be whatever you want it to be, on my part I just wanted to correct a few myths, including one from myself.
Thanks DD,
That is the statement given to Detective Inspector Smith.
Raymond had another brush with the law in 1978, being of no fixed abode and claiming he hadn't eaten for a week walked out of a restaurant without paying and stole a knife for good measure. He was sent for psychiatric assessment.
The Leighton Rd address is that of his brother who along with Raymond is mentioned in his mothers probate. His mother left a total of £1,799-13s-3d
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I remember this well . he hired a car from a garage that was in Duke st which I think was owned by Herrons. Further to this a lad I was in the Army cadets with (cant remember his name) joined the police force and was on desk duty at Well lane police station when he came in to ask permission for what he wanted to do but was just dismissed as a person with mental health problems. The copper did not record it in the incident book and was afterwards reprimanded for this.
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Spot on Joney,
Geo Herron & Co Ltd,
Duke St Garage.
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