Tag: murder

Local history: The Murder of the Beecroft Girls, Holbeck, 1900

The Beecroft girls, Ada aged 6 years and Annie aged 4 years, were the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Mellor. Their mother Ada Beecroft, had been committed to the Menston Asylum at Guiseley where she died in November 1899. Some time before Ada’s death Mellor had moved in with another woman

Further arrest in Dewsbury Road murder case as identity of victim released

Detectives investigating the murder of a man in Beeston have released his identity. Keith Harrower, who was also known as Joshua French, was pronounced dead in hospital after being stabbed in an incident outside the Premier supermarket, in Dewsbury Road, Beeston, shortly before 5:30pm on Thursday 12 December 2019. A