Mary Judge - City Centre 1969
Mary Judge a 43 year old prostitute was found naked and bludgeoned to death on the spare land directly opposite Leeds parish church. Mary was well known in the city centre pubs and had been drinking in The Regent hotel on Kirkgate on the night of her murder. A suspect who had been drinking in the same pubs as her and was known to be one of her clients was arrested but was released due to a lack of evidence. Another possible suspect was the Yorkshire ripper Peter Sutcliffe as he fitted the description given by a witness travelling past on a train whilst the murder was being committed.
Mary's head was destroyed beyond recognition and she had to be identified by fingerprints. To this day her murder has never been solved.
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I witnessed this murder. I was the small boy on the train mentioned in a few articles about the murder. There was another man on the train who saw it too. I was very small at the time, but I recall my mum and this other man telling the railway porters in Leeds station about it, and they informed the Police. Two detectives came to our house the next day to ask questions.
ReplyDeleteThe murder itself happened at the very top of the railway embankment on the parish church side of the railway. She was naked, and the culprit was giving the poor woman a real beating. It was pretty dark at the top of the embankment, but the passing train lights illuminated the whole thing at it passed by. It was February, and I can recall it was a bitterly cold night when we got off the train at Leeds station.
P.s the date of the murder was Thursday, February 22nd, 1968. It was about 10.10 p.m.
ReplyDeletelets hope this murder gets solved one day,it does sound like Sutcliffe,how many more victims are there?
ReplyDeleteTo easy to blame Sutcliffe, but I honestly think It was him, but why strip the women naked on a railway embankment, maybe that fool John Taylor knows a bit about it, we will never know now
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