Home Forums Blogs Articles Photos Videos Contact FAQ

Hilda Murrell - Murder

Hilda Murrell - Murder: Encyclopedia II - Hilda Murrell - Murder

She was murdered in mysterious circumstances in March 1984; she had been stabbed several times after an apparent break-in at her Shrewsbury home, but died from hypothermia in woodland. She was due to speak at the Sizewell Inquiry and was the aunt of Commander Robert Green, a naval intelligence officer who was wrongly said to have passed the order for the sinking of the Argentine ship the Belgrano during the Falklands War; both facts leading to conspiracy theories about her death. She was cremated and her ashes scattered at Maengwynedd, in Wales. A commemorative ...

Hilda Murrell: Encyclopedia II - Hilda Murrell - Murder

Hilda Murrell - Murder

She was murdered in mysterious circumstances in March 1984; she had been stabbed several times after an apparent break-in at her Shrewsbury home, but died from hypothermia in woodland.

She was due to speak at the Sizewell Inquiry and was the aunt of Commander Robert Green, a naval intelligence officer who was wrongly said to have passed the order for the sinking of the Argentine ship the Belgrano during the Falklands War; both facts leading to conspiracy theories about her death.

She was cremated and her ashes scattered at Maengwynedd, in Wales. A commemorative stone was unveiled in Tanybryn in 2004.

The case was re-opened in 2002. Labourer Andrew George, who was 16 when Miss Murrell died, was arrested in June 2003 after a review of the murder uncovered DNA evidence linking him with the crime.

In May 2005 George was found guilty of her kidnap and murder.