Cold cases and unsolved crimes Read in browser True crime Courts Podcast | Sign in One of the UK's oldest unsolved murders No one could have predicted that the unassuming life of well-loved greengrocer David Ombler would meet a most terrible and violent end. The case that unfolded both baffled and
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| No one could have predicted that the unassuming life of well-loved greengrocer David Ombler would meet a most terrible and violent end. The case that unfolded both baffled and horrified police and the wider community. It remains one of the oldest murder mysteries in Britain and while some older cases have at least had suspects, no one has ever been linked to Mr Ombler's killing. | |
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| | | On May 30, 1914 Mr Ombler was found in the back room of a greengrocers lying face up with a large blood pool under his head. Close by were two parts of a poker that had evidently broken when they struck his head. He was still alive but when asked who had struck him, Mr Ombler could not answer. Read more about the murder scene here. | |
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| | | Mr Ombler was taken to Prospect Street Hospital in Hull where he was officially pronounced dead. An examination showed a number of head injuries with one on the forehead being four inches long. However it was one on the top of the head that was believed to have caused his death. The blow by a blunt force object, likely the poker although tongs were also found at the scene, caused a fractured skull. Find the hospital report here. | |
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| | | There were plenty of witnesses who described a 'loitering stranger' around the time of the attack. A servant girl said she had seen a 'strange looking' man nearby while another witness described a man 'wearing dark corduroy trousers' and with 'a tilted nose end'. There was also talk of a man in a local pub who the barman had not seen before and who had changed his drink order three times. Read the eyewitness accounts here. | |
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