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In June 2023, it was announced Dinenage would join BBC Radio Solent to present on Saturdays afternoons for six weeks during the summer. His first show was on 17th June. a b "How a Welsh Child Murderer May Have Become one of London's Most Notorious Serial Killers". walesonline.co.uk. 26 April 2018 . Retrieved 21 September 2018. The Crime & Investigation Network have broadcast an episode focusing on the murders committed by Harold Jones as part of their Murder Casebook series. Presented by Fred Dinenage, this 45-minute episode was first broadcast in May 2011 and features interviews with several Abertillery residents. [47] In October 2021, it was announced that Dinenage would step down from ITV, after 38 years as a news anchor in the south of England. [6] His final edition of ITV News Meridian aired on 16 December 2021. Harold Jones (11 January 1906 – 2 January 1971) [1] was a British child murderer who killed two preadolescent girls in Monmouthshire, Wales, in 1921, when he was aged 15. [2]

A number of investigators and authors believe Jones to be a likely perpetrator of the Hammersmith nude murders, a series of murders of prostitutes committed between 1964 and 1965 in West London. These theories have only abounded since Jones's death, and he was never contemporarily considered as a suspect in the case. [45] Youthful Murderer Found Guilty". Northern Territory Times and Gazette. 26 July 1921 . Retrieved 29 February 2020. Shortly after Jones was escorted to prison to begin his sentence, a second written statement was read aloud to the court. This statement—also penned prior to his trial—read: "I, Harold Jones, wilfully and deliberately murdered Freda Burnell in Mortimer's Shed on 5 February 1921. The reason for this act was a desire to kill." [15] HM Prison Usk. Jones was sentenced to be detained at His Majesty's pleasure at this prison on 1 November 1921 Later life and aftermath [ edit ] Shortly after the murder of Little, his employer, Herbert Mortimer, closed his shop and relocated with his family from Abertillery. Reportedly, this decision was made due to both a mixture of ostracization from locals regarding the false testimony he had delivered at the Burnell trial, and his own guilt that this false testimony had enabled Jones to subsequently remain at liberty and kill again. [33] It is unknown where the Mortimer family initially relocated to, although the death of Herbert Henry Mortimer, at age 69, was registered in the Forest of Dean region of Gloucestershire early in 1955. [46]

Harold Jones's written statement, formally confessing to the murder of Florence Little. 17 September 1921. [15] a b A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies, from Napoleon to O.J. ISBN 0-471-44014-0 p. 139. Muriel Drinkwater Murder: Harold Jones Link Ruled Out". BBC News. 1 May 2019 . Retrieved 26 February 2020.

Jones died of bone cancer on 2 January 1971. [43] [12] At the time of his death, he was employed as a night watchman and living under the alias of Harry Stevens, [28] although before he died, he told his wife the name Harold Jones should be written on his death certificate. [44] Dinenage was born in Birmingham. [4] He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School. [5] Career [ edit ] Boy “obsessed with drugs” send to Broadmoor. (1962, July 6). The Guardian, 13. Retrieved from Newspapers.com. Wilson, Colin; Wilson, Damon; Wilson, Rowan (1993). World Famous Murders. London: Paragon Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0-752-50122-2.Jones left school at age 14 to obtain employment—largely as a means of supplementing his family's income. He found employment at a local oil and seed merchant named Mortimer's Stores. Here, he was known to be a punctual and trustworthy employee who was both capable of managing the shop without help, and popular with customers. [10] Murders [ edit ] Freda Burnell [ edit ] Evan, Colin (2003). A Question of Evidence: The Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies, from Napoleon to O.J. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-471-44014-0. a b Dark Valleys: Foul Deeds Among the South Wales Valleys 1845 - 2016 ISBN 978-1-473-86181-7 p. 85.