Hilda Murrell
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Hilda Murrell (1906 - March 21, 1984) was a rose grower, naturalist, diarist and campaigner against nuclear energy.
A pupil at Shrewsbury High School, she later studied at Newnham College, Cambridge
She was a founder member of the Shropshire Conservation Trust (later Shropshire Wildlife Trust) and of the Shropshire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England
Murder
She was murdered in mysterious circumstances in March 1984; she had been stabbed several times after an apparent break-in at her Shrewsbury home, but died from hypothermia in woodland,
She was due to speak at the Sizewell Inquiry and was the aunt of Commander Robert Green, a naval intelligence officer who passed the order for the sinking of the Argentinian ship the Belgrano during the Falklands War; both facts leading to conspiracy theories about her death.
She was cremated and her ashes scattered at Maengwynedd, in Wales. A commemorative stone was unveiled in Tanybryn in 2004.
The case was re-opened in 2002. Labourer Andrew George, who was 16 when Miss Murrell died, was arrested in June 2003 after a review of the murder uncovered DNA evidence linking him with the crime.
In April 2005 George was found guilty of her kidnap and murder.
Bibliography
Hilda Murrell's Nature Diaries, 1961-1983, edited by Charles Skinner, Collins, 1987, ISBN 0-00-412186-4
External link
- BBC: "Life for killing peace campaigner" (http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/4513565.stm)