May 17th, 1980
Clergyman murdered: In 1980 the house was home to an elderly doctor and his wife. One terrible day a man named Henry John Gallagher happened on the house. Gallagher had a history of attacking clergymen, and presumed that the poor doctor was a priest, most likely because it was close to the local church. Gallagher broke into the house and bludgeoned the doctor and his wife to death with a hammer. The murderer, unfortunately, was never tried for the crime and went on to murder a priest and his housekeeper in Ramsgate, Kent.
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