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Born: 14 January 1946Victims: 1975 17 March -  Eva Lyons, 70, of Keswick Close, Todmorden1978 7 August - Sarah Hannah Marsland, 86, of Ashton House, Victoria Street, Hyde 30 August - Mary Ellen Jordan, 73, of Godley Hill Road, Hyde 7 December - Harold Bramwell , 73, of Bryce Street, Hyde 20 December - Annie Campbell, 88, of Rydal Avenue, Hyde1979 10 August - Alice Maude Gorton, 76, of Leigh Fold, Newton, Hyde 28 November - Jack Leslie Shelmerdine, 77, of Hyde1981 18 April - May Slater, 84, of Hough Lane, Hyde 26 August - Elizabeth Ashworth, 81, of Peel Street, Hyde1983 4 January - Percy Ward, 90, of Hollins Avenue, Hyde 28 June - Moira Ashton Fox, 77, of Chartist House, Mount Street, Hyde1984 7 January - Dorothy Tucker, 51, of Armadale Road, Dukinfield 8 February - Gladys Roberts, 78, of Shaw Hall Avenue, Hyde 15 April - Joseph Bardsley, 83, of Hough Lane, Newton, Hyde 24 April - Winifred Arrowsmith, 70, of Chartist House, Hyde 21 September - Mary Winterbottom, 76, of Grange Road South, Hyde 27 November - Ada Ashworth, 87, of Spring Avenue, Hyde 17 December - Joseph Vincent Everall, 80, of Commercial Street, Hyde 18 December - Edith Wibberley, 76, of Cheetham Fold Road, Hyde 24 December - Eileen Theresa Cox, 72, of Hunters Court, Dukinfield1985 2 January - Peter Lewis, 41, of Briardene, Denton 1 February - May Brookes, 74, of Cross Street, Hyde 4 February - Ellen Higson, 84, of Marler Road, Hyde 15 February - Margaret Ann Conway, 69, of Mary Street, Dukinfield 22 February - Kathleen McDonald, 73, of Carter Place, Hyde 26 June - Thomas Moult, 70, of Thorpe Hall Grove, Hyde 26 June - Mildred Robinson, 84, of Mona Street, Hyde 23 August - Frances Elizabeth Turner, 85, of Peveril Terrace, Hyde 17 December - Selina Mackenzie, 77, of Perrin Street, Hyde 20 December - Vera Bramwell, 79, of Rufford Avenue, Hyde 31 December - Fred Kellett, 79, of Knott Lane, Gee Cross, Hyde1986 7 January - Deborah Middleton, 81, of 4 Manor Road, Hyde 23 April - Dorothy Fletcher, 74, of Charnley House, Albert Road, Hyde 6 June - Thomas Fowden, 81, of Mona Street, Hyde 15 September - Mona Ashton White, 63, of Thorpe Hall Grove, Newton, Hyde 7 October - Mary Tomlin, 73, of Thorpe Hall Grove, Hyde 17 November - Beatrice Toft, 59, of Marler Road, Hyde 16 December - Lily Broadbent, 75, of Welbeck Road, Hyde 23 December - James Wood, 82, of Rydal Avenue, Hyde1987 30 March - Frank Halliday, 76, of Saxon Avenue, Dukinfield 1 April - Albert Cheetham, 85, of Brooks Avenue, Hyde 16 April - Alice Thomas, 83, of Sidley Place, Hyde 8 May - Jane Frances Rostron, 78, of Hamel Street, Hyde 14 September - Nancy Anne Brassington, 71, of Laburnum Avenue, Hyde 11 December - Margaret Townsend, 80, of Busheyfield Close, Newton, Hyde 29 December - Nellie Bardsley, 69, of Rufford Avenue, Hyde 30 December - Elizabeth Ann Rogers, 74, of Chartist House, Mount Street, Hyde1988 5 January - Elizabeth Fletcher, 90, of St John's Drive, Godley, Hyde 15 January - Alice Mary Jones, 83, of Garden Street, Hyde 9 February - Dorothea Hill Renwick, 90, of Dowson Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 15 February - Ann Cooper, 93, of Old Road, Hyde 15 February - Jane Jones, 83, of Leigh Fold, Hyde 16 February - Lavinia Robinson, 84, of Chartist House, Mount Street, Hyde 18 September - Rose Ann Adshead, 80, of Lawton Street, Hyde 20 October - Alice Prestwich, 69, of Ogden Court, Frank Street, Hyde 6 November - Walter Tingle, 85, of Walker Close, Hyde 17 December - Harry Stafford, 87, of Rock Street, Gee Cross, Hyde 19 December - Ethel Bennett, 80, of Cunliffe Street, Hyde1989 31 January - Wilfred Chappell, 80, of Newton Hall Road, Hyde 8 March - Mary Emma Hamer, 81, of Grange Road South, Hyde 12 May - Beatrice Helen Clee, 78, of King Edward Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 5 June - Josephine Hall, 69, of Garden Street, Newton, Hyde 6 July - Hilda Fitton, 75, of Burkitt Street, Hyde 14 August - Marion Carradice , 80, of Kensington Street, Hyde 22 September - Elsie Harrop, 82, of Frank Street, Hyde 26 September - Elizabeth Mary Burke, 82, of Carter Place, Hyde 15 October - Sarah Jane Williamson, 82, of Thorsby Avenue, Hyde 16 October - John Charlton, 81, of Ogden Court, Frank Street, Hyde 18 October - George Edgar Vizor, 67, of Thorpe Hall Grove, Hyde 6 November - Joseph Frank Wilcockson, 85, of Dow Street, Hyde1990 18 September - Dorothy Rowarth, 56, of Farm Lane, Hyde 30 December - Mary Rose Dudley, 69, of The Woodlands, Werneth Road, Hyde1992 7 October - Monica Rene Sparkes, 72, of Rock Gardens, Gee Cross, Hyde1993 24 February - Hilda Mary Couzens, 92, of Knott Lane, Hyde 24 February - Olive Heginbotham, 86, of Fawley Avenue, Hyde 22 March - Amy Whitehead, 82, of Haughton Green Road, Denton 8 April - Mary Emma Andrew, 86, of Mona Street, Hyde 17 April - Sarah Ashworth, 74, of Bowlacre Road, Hyde 27 April - Marjorie Parker, 74, of Werneth Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde 2 May - Nellie Mullen, 77, of Lanegate, Hyde 4 May - Edna May Llewellyn, 68, of Carter Place, Hyde 12 May - Emily Morgan, 84, of Mansfield Road, Hyde 13 May - Violet May Bird, 60, of Hyde 22 July - Jose Kathleen Diana Richards, 74, of Meadowfield Court, Hyde 16 August - Edith Calverley, 77, of Mansfield Road, Hyde 16 December - Joseph Leigh, 78, of King George Road, Hyde 22 December - Eileen Robinson, 54, of Marlborough Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 31 December - Charles Edward Brocklehurst, 90, of Park Avenue, Hyde1994 4 January - Joan Milray Harding, 82, of Hyde 13 January - Christine Hancock, 53, of Thistley Fields, Gee Cross, Hyde 9 February - Elsie Platt, 73, of Stockport Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 17 May - Mary Alice Smith, 84, of Chartist House, Hyde 25 May - Ronnie Devenport, 57, of Chartist House, Hyde 15 June - Cicely Sharples, 87, of Swindells Street, Newton, Hyde 17 June - Alice Christine Kitchen, 70, of Kirkstone Road, Hyde 27 July - Maria Thornton, 78, of Stockport Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 25 November - Henrietta Walker, 87, of Orchard Street, Hyde 30 November - Elizabeth Ellen Mellor, 75, of Sidley Place, Hyde 29 December - John Bennett Molesdale, 81, of Old Road, Newton, Hyde1995 9 January - Alice Kennedy, 88, of Ogden Court, Frank Street, Hyde 1 March - Lucy Virgin, 70, of Carter Place, Newton, Hyde 7 March - Netta Ashcroft, 71, of Meadowfield Court, Flowery Field, Hyde 7 March - Lily Bardsley, 88, of Ashton Road, Hyde 13 March - Marie Antoinette Fernley, 53, of Darwin Street, Hyde 21 March - John Crompton, 82, of Gloucester Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 26 March - Frank Crompton, 86, of Knott Lane, Hyde 31 March - Vera Brocklehurst, 70, of Queensway, Dukinfield 10 April - Angela Philomena Tierney, 71, of Commercial Street, Hyde 13 April - Edith Scott, 85, of Dowson Road, Hyde 14 April - Clara Hackney, 84, of Booth Street, Hyde 21 April - Renate Eldtraude Overton, 47, of Hyde 4 May - Kate Maud Sellors, 75, of Ashton House, Victoria Street, Hyde 2 June - Clifford Barnes Heapey, 85, of Hyde Nursing Home, Hyde 13 June - Bertha Moss, 68, of Newton Hall Court, Hyde 17 June - Brenda Ashworth, 63, of Meadowfield Court, Hyde 29 June - Ernest Rudol, 82, of Forrest Road, Haughton Green, Denton 12 July - Ada Matley Hilton, 88, of St John's Drive, Godley, Hyde 31 July - Irene Aitken, 65, of Burkitt Street, Hyde 29 August - Arthur Henderson Stopford, 82, of Rydal Avenue, Hyde 14 September - Geoffrey Bogle, 72, of Lord Derby Road, Hyde 26 September - Dora Elizabeth Ashton, 87, of 34 Mona Street, Hyde 24 October - Muriel Margaret Ward, 87, of Ogden Court, Frank Street, Hyde 8 November - Edith Brock, 74, of Carter Place, Hyde 22 November - Charles Henry Barlow, 88, of Dowson Road, Hyde 25 November - Konrad Peter Ovcar-Robinson, 43, of Hyde 14 December - Elizabeth Teresa Sigley, 67, of Stockport Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 14 December - Kenneth Wharmby Woodhead, 75, of Sawyer Brow, Hyde1996 2 January - Hilda Mary Hibbert, 81, of Joel Lane, Gee Cross, Hyde 11 January - Erla Copeland, 79, of Grosvenor Crescent, Hyde 21 February - Jane Elizabeth Shelmerdine, 80, of Napier Street, Gee Cross, Hyde 27 February - John Sheard Greenhalgh, 88, of Cheetham Fold Road, Hyde 12 March - Minnie Doris Irene Galpin, 71, of Meadowfield Court, Hyde 18 April - Marjorie Hope Waller, 79, of Kew Avenue, Hyde 24 April - John Stone, 77, of Dukinfield Road, Hyde 7 May - Elsie Godfrey, 85, of Chartist House, Hyde 13 May - Edith Brady, 72. Ruled unlawful killing at inquiry 29 May - Valerie Cuthbert, 54, of Daisy Bank, Gee Cross, Hyde 30 May - Lilian Cullen, 77, of Foxholes Road, Hyde 6 June - Renee Lacey, 63, of Windsor Road, Hyde 10 June - Leah Fogg, 82, of Haughton Green Road, Denton 17 June - Gladys Saunders, 82, of Ogden Court, Hyde 25 June - Nellie Bennett, 86, of Ravensfield, Gorse Hall Road, Dukinfield 25 June - Margaret Mary Vickers, 81, of Bennett Street, Hyde 2 July - Tom Balfour Russell, 77, of 18 Harrison Street, Gee Cross, Hyde 11 July - Irene Turner, 67, of St Pauls Hill Road, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 16 July - Carrie Leigh, 81, of Joel Lane, Gee Cross, Hyde 19 July - Marion Elizabeth Higham, 84, of Joel Lane, Gee Cross, Hyde 24 July - Elsie Hannible, 85, of Rydal Avenue, Hyde 29 July - Elsie Barker, 84, of Green Street, Hyde 30 August - Sidney Arthur Smith, 76, of Garden Street, Newton, Hyde 12 September - Dorothy Mary Andrew, 85, of Sheffield Road, Godley, Hyde 20 September - Anne Lilian Ralphs, 75, of Baron Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 23 October - Millicent Garside, 76, of St John's Drive, Godley, Hyde 20 November - Irene Heathcote, 76, of Coronation Avenue, Hyde 23 November - Samuel Mills, 89, of Ogden Court, Hyde 4 December - Thomas Cheetham, 78, of Garden Street, Newton, Hyde 17 December - Kenneth Ernest Smith, 73, of Garden Street, Newton, Hyde1997 2 January - Eileen Daphne Crompton, 75, of Charnley House, Albert Road, Hyde 3 January - David Alan Harrison, 47, of Talbot Road, Hyde 8 January - Elsie Lorna Dean, 69, of Wood Street, Hyde 20 January - Irene Brooder, 76, of St Johns Drive, Godley, Hyde 27 January - Charlotte Bennison, 89, of Rowbotham Street, Gee Cross, Hyde 3 February - Charles Henry Killan, 90, of Bagshaw Street, Newton, Hyde 4 February - Betty Royston, 70, of Ogden Court, Hyde 23 February - Joyce Woodhead, 74, of Sawyer Brow, Newton, Hyde 28 February - Lizzie Adams,77, of Coronation Avenue, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 22 March - Rose Garlick, 76, of Taylor Gardens, Hyde 27 March -  May Lowe, 84, of Allen Avenue, Hyde 21 April - Mary Coutts, 80, of Marler Road, Hyde 25 April - Elsie Cheetham, 76, of Garden Street, Hyde 25 April - Jean Lilley, 58, of Jackson Street, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 2 May - Lena Norah Slater, 68, of Newton Hall Court, Hyde 12 May - Ethel May Kellet, 74, of Bankfield, Newton, Hyde 21 May - Doris Earls, 79, of Brabyns Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 29 May - Ivy Lomas, 63, of Thornley Street, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 24 June - Vera Whittingslow, 69, of Dowson Road, Hyde 7 July - Maureen Lamonnier Jackson, 51, of Mottram Road, Hyde 14 July - Muriel Grimshaw, 76, of Berkley Crescent, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 25 July - John Louden Livesey, 69, of Dowson Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 28 July - Lily Newby Taylor, 86, of Brabyns Road, Hyde 10 August - Dorothy Doretta Hopkins, 72, of Darwin Street, Hyde 1 September - Nancy Jackson, 81, of Gower Court, King Edward Road, Hyde 22 September - Mavis Mary Pickup, 79, of Spring Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde 26 September - Bessie Swann, 79, of Brooks Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde 29 September - Enid Otter, 77, of Waverley Road, Hyde 10 November - Florence Lewis, 79, of Mansfield Road, Hyde 14 November - Mary Walls, 78, of Werneth Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde 21 November - Elizabeth Mary Baddeley, 83, of Rowan Court, Stockport Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 24 November - Marie Quinn, 67, of Paul Street, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 8 December - Elizabeth Battersby, 70, of Norbury Avenue, Hyde 9 December - Laura Kathleen Wagstaff, 81, of Rock Gardens, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 10 December - Bianka Pomfret, 49, of Fountain Street, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 18 December - Alice Black, 73, of Plain Pitt Street, Hyde 24 December - James Joseph King, 83, of Ogden Court, Hyde1998 22 January - Mabel Shawcross, 79, of Stockport Road, Hyde 26 January - Norah Nuttall, 64, of Baron Road, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 2 February - Cissie Davies, 73, of Lodge Lane, Newton, Hyde 9 February - Pamela Marguerite Hillier, 68, of Stalybridge Road, Mottram. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 13 February - Laura Frances Linn, 83, of Acorn Avenue, Gee Cross, Hyde 15 February - Irene Berry, 74, Rufford Avenue, Hyde 18 February - Maureen Alice Ward, 57, of Ogden Court, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 27 February - Joan Edwina Dean, 75, of Joel Lane, Gee Cross, Hyde 4 March - Harold Eddleston, 77, of Rufford Avenue, Hyde 6 March - Margaret Anne Waldron, 65, of Woodend Lane, Gee Cross, Hyde 7 March - Irene Chapman, 74, of Clarendon Road, Hyde 13 March - Dorothy Long, 84, of Woodfield Avenue, Hyde 17 March - Lily Higgins, 83, of Stockport Road, Gee Cross, Hyde 20 March - Ada Warburton, 77, of Grange Road North, Hyde 24 March - Martha Marley, 88, of Mona Street, Hyde 11 May - Winifred Mellor, 73, of Coronation Avenue, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 12 June - Joan May Melia, 73, of Commercial Street, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000 24 June - Kathleen Grundy, 81, of Joel Lane, Hyde. Shipman convicted of her murder in January 2000Arrested: 7 September 1998Trial: 5 October 1999Convicted: 31 January 2000Died: 13 January 2004