June 5, 1987: Teresa McCandless is convicted of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court.
This is only a false allegation of attempted rape, but is included here because of the outcome. McCandless had been drinking with Harry Bolton – a man nearly twice her age – when she stabbed him to death at an apartment in Catford.
From the little information available, both appear to have been down and outs, or at best two people living near the bottom of society. She claimed he had the knife, which does little to explain how he was the one who was stabbed.
The article below appeared in the Guardian, June 13, 1987, page 5. Although the victim is named as Harold Bolton, his death record gives it as Harry John Bolton born February 3, 1928. I found a photograph of McCandless after her conviction but will not include it here.
File Toxic Teresa under PRETEXT FOR MURDER and HEAD CASE.
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