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- The murder of June Anne Devaney is a British child murder which occurred on 15 May 1948 when a girl aged 3 years 11 months was abducted from her cot while an inpatient at Queen's Park Hospital in Blackburn, Lancashire. The child was removed to the grounds of the hospital, where she was raped, before suffering extensive blunt force trauma to her skull when her head was repeatedly swung into a sandstone wall. This assault caused extensive internal injuries and multiple skull fractures, causing the child to develop a fatal state of shock. Her murderer, 22-year-old Peter Griffiths, was arrested three months after the crime and was subsequently tried and convicted of June Anne's murder. He was hanged on 19 November 1948. To solve the crime, police obtained the fingerprints of every male aged 16 and over who had been in the vicinity of Blackburn on the night of 14-15 May and compared them to those left at the crime scene by the perpetrator. The investigation into the murder of June Anne Devaney was a milestone in the history of forensic science, being the first time a mass fingerprinting exercise had been employed to solve a murder in the United Kingdom. (en)
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- Detective Chief Inspector John Capstick (en)
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- January 1926 (en)
- June 1944 (en)
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- Blackburn, Lancashire, England (en)
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- Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn (en)
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- Griffiths' mug shot, taken after his August 1948 arrest (en)
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- 1948-05-15 (xsd:date)
- 1948-11-19 (xsd:date)
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- Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, Lancashire, England (en)
- Walton Prison, Walton, Liverpool, England (en)
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- Peter Griffiths (en)
- June Anne Devaney (en)
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- The Blackburn Baby Murderer (en)
- The Blackburn Child Killer (en)
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- Albert and Emily Devaney (en)
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- I am not ashamed to say I saw it through a mist of tears. Years of detective service had hardened me to many terrible things, but this tiny pathetic body, in its nightdress soaked in blood and mud, was something no man could see unmoved, and it haunts me to this day ... I swore, standing there in the rain, that I would bring her murderer to justice. (en)
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- The murder of June Anne Devaney is a British child murder which occurred on 15 May 1948 when a girl aged 3 years 11 months was abducted from her cot while an inpatient at Queen's Park Hospital in Blackburn, Lancashire. The child was removed to the grounds of the hospital, where she was raped, before suffering extensive blunt force trauma to her skull when her head was repeatedly swung into a sandstone wall. This assault caused extensive internal injuries and multiple skull fractures, causing the child to develop a fatal state of shock. Her murderer, 22-year-old Peter Griffiths, was arrested three months after the crime and was subsequently tried and convicted of June Anne's murder. He was hanged on 19 November 1948. (en)
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- Murder of June Anne Devaney (en)
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