patricia curran

Who Killed Patricia Curran?

Soapbox on October 15, 2022, 7:00 am

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Kieran Fagan is an ex-journalist living in Dublin My new book Who Killed Patricia Curran? identifies her mother Lady Doris Curran, wife of Northern Ireland high court judge, Lance Curran, as the murderer. Patricia was. 19 years old, in her first year at Queen’s University in Belfast, in November 1952. Seventy years ago around midnight on 12 November 12, 1952, her parents reported that she had failed to return to the family home at Whiteabbey on the northern shore of Belfast …

Desmond Curran brother of murdered Patricia Curran reported dead in South Africa…

Robert Campbell on September 3, 2015, 11:18 am

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De mortuis nil nisi bonum In March this year I wrote a short piece about the murder in 1952 of Patricia Curran (here). Patricia was the daughter of a judge, the police investigation of her death was thwarted by the judge, a ‘confession’ was obtained from an innocent man who, in a travesty of the legal process, was found ‘guilty but insane’ and incarcerated in a mental hospital for seven years. This man was Iain Hay Gordon; no explanation was …