On Valentine’s Day, 1945, the peaceful village of Lower Quinton in Warwickshire was shaken by one of Britain’s most brutal and mysterious murders. Charles Walton, a 74-year-old farm labourer, was found gruesomely slain near Meon Hill—his body pinned to the ground with a pitchfork, his throat slashed by his own billhook. What at first seemed like a horrific act of violence soon spiralled into something stranger. With ritualistic overtones, missing charms, and a long history of folklore surrounding Meon Hill, whispers of witchcraft emerged almost immediately. Scotland Yard’s top detectives were baffled. Was this a crime of superstition and fear—a modern-day witch killing? Or something more calculated and mundane disguised in ritual?.

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Source Information:

http://www.stratford-herald.com/news/witchcraft-and-murder-on-meon-hill-9223403/

http://www.crimemagazine.com/last-witch-killing-united-kingdom-murder-charles-walton-1945-0

https://www.vice.com/en/article/charles-walton-murder-victim/

https://medium.com/@anncarney51/a-murder-on-valentines-day-f1088bde52c6

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2012/02/meon-hill-valentines-day-death-celia.html

http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htm

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