tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157596724577720469.post9122426179574317245..comments2024-03-19T15:33:57.300+00:00Comments on THE MIDDLEWICH DIARY: 50 YEARS ON - THE BERTIE WILKINSON MURDERSALT TOWN PRODUCTIONShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706424934131762804noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157596724577720469.post-83199380817522611552022-05-23T11:21:21.941+00:002022-05-23T11:21:21.941+00:00I was a young medical Photographer at the time. Wo...I was a young medical Photographer at the time. Working at Liverpool University Dept. of Human Anatomy, also working there was The famous Home Office Pathologist Charles St, Hill. He met me on the stairs one morning (think it was 1968) carrying a tea tray with something on it covered with a tea towel, "Good morning Arthur, I'm looking for you!" to share tea sir" I replied, "not really I want you to see this and take pictures" what was under the tea towel was the decomposed head of Herbert Wilkinson, I had to take both photographs and X-Rays of the head from various angles, later we got our medical artist Douglas Kidd to reconsytruct the features from the pictures being very very careful that he did not know the possible idenity of the deceased in case of any bias, we kept a photograph of the suspected deceased taken some time before his death apart from the artist, Dougie Kidd was by the way one of the finest medical artists of his day and also did a reconstruction of the Egyptian King Tuthankhamen from photographs and X-rays I took in his tomb also in 1968, on a BBC filmed and financed investigation into his death this was shown in a BBC Documentary in the Horizon series the following yearArthurBrookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18428188994028763966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157596724577720469.post-87625541231388368762020-05-07T03:25:30.847+00:002020-05-07T03:25:30.847+00:00I read over the Cheshire Magazine entry which says...I read over the Cheshire Magazine entry which says that his business was in trouble because he was struck off by the Law Society for being sick in mind and body. A very loaded phrase that doesn't mean much now but would have been well understood in the 1960's. I suspect that Mr Wilkinson had come to the attention of the police on perhaps more than one occasion and was not prosecuted but certainly ruined professionally. Much in the same manner that Alan Turing was a decade earlier. Homosexuality still being very much against the law I would think the Law Society would take a very dim view of any potential press attention on one of it's members.Paul Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07098081476681314494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157596724577720469.post-27149017553756942322018-02-24T10:22:30.067+00:002018-02-24T10:22:30.067+00:00Dave, If any clothing items found in this burial s...Dave, If any clothing items found in this burial site of where Berties body was found do still exist! The Police Department where these items are held, they can now today be gone over by forensics and dna testing for hairs, and blood spatter. You never know, the killer's blood could have made it onto Berties clothing! If these items are still in the Police Dept. they should be tested today being called a Cold Case! Many of these Cold Cases have been solved in the US that are over 50 and 60 years old! It is worth that shot!Suzan Atkinson-Havertynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2157596724577720469.post-29241970356300812202017-10-24T08:58:27.644+00:002017-10-24T08:58:27.644+00:00Hi Dave, Have you created a spoiler for my latest ...Hi Dave, Have you created a spoiler for my latest book. CAUGHT IN A TRAP. The weapon of choice for the villain, an Elvis impersonator, is WINDLASS.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05189289399324661932noreply@blogger.com