Welcome to SoHo Strangler Week by Murdwell. To accompany the series, here's a few

extra details from the police files and the court records. To age your enjoyment and

maybe even help you crack the case. This episode is about Norman Stevenson and his

timings. So what do we know about Norman Stevenson? Let's have a look at his

life, let's have a look at what he did as a job, let's have a look his criminal

convictions and let's have a look at everything surrounding the SoHo Strangler

murders and also the murders in Durham as well. So we know that you left school

age 13 to 14 so March 1927 up to summer he was working as an errand boy

for Messers Hughes who were a picture frame framers in Newcastle where he came

from and he worked there for a couple of months and that would have been right up to

the point that he's first job right up to the point when he received that

injury. So 15th September 1927 it was reported in the newspapers as well it said

he had a serious accident by falling onto some spiked railings surrounding the

football pitch at St James's Park he was taken to Newcastle Royal in

firmly for three weeks with a punctured abdomen that's pretty much all we

really know about that we know he was 14 years old at the time injured in the

abdomen he was as far as I know he was there for about three weeks and then he

was released and sent back home. It seemed to have affected him for the rest of

his life and unlike other murderers that we may have encountered before you

tend to kind of see head injuries at an early age which has changed the way

that they're the way that they act they're kind of their personality entirely

changes but here it's a stomach injury. He doesn't seem to change in terms of

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