A partially sighted man in his seventies who killed a fellow resident of the care home where he resided was detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.
At 1pm on 1st December 1951 police were called to Connolly House in Balliol Road, a Bootle Corporation's home for the blind. On arrival they found 46 year old Margaret Hughes lying on a landing with a throat wound. She as taken to hospital but was dead on arrival.
Later that afternoon detectives took Frederick Wilson, a 76 year old partially sighted resident of the home, into custody. Wilson admitted cutting Margaret's throat with a razor but when examined by Dr Brisley at Walton gaol, was found to be suffering from a progressive disease of the mind. At the Liverpool assizes on 14th February 1952, the judge accepted that he was unfit to plead and detained him at Her Majesty's pleasure.
Connolly house later became a home for elder persons and was demolished in 2010 to make way for an extension to Hugh Baird College.
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