Murder of June Anne Devaney

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.

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