FULL TEXT: Peterborough, England – Files on the violent
deaths of three children will remain closed despite the conviction of their mother for murdering her fourth child, a coroner
said yesterday.
Mrs Margaret Bushell, 49, [of Downham Market,
Norfolk] was jailed for life on Tuesday [May 15] for smothering her
seven-year-old son Simon with a pillow. He was the fourth of her children to
die tragically in 15 years. One was drowned in a bath, one in a water boiler
and another fell to his death from a window.
Yesterday, a local coroner, Mr Arlhur Bantofi, said the
verdicts of accidental death on the three children had been in accordance with
police evidence, and followed full police investigations.
Two Members of Parliament have called for an inquiry into
the other three deaths. The children, the first of whom died in 1958, were a
girl of three, and two boys, aged five and three.
Mrs Bushell, a widow, denied murdering Simon. She said his
death was an accident and that she had become angry at the way he had kept
twitching his nose.
[“Mother gets life for
murder,” Canberra Times, Australia, (AAP Reuter), May 18, 1973, p. 4]
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