Carol Morris and Edith Pearce, Cannock Chase trial

Feb. 02, 1969 - Christine Derby Case. wife Admits She Lied to Police About Husband. The wife of the man accused of the Cannock Chase murder of Christine Darby, 7, on Aug 19, 1967, lied to the police about the time her husband arrived home that day, because I didn't think he was the person concerned'. Mrs Carol Diane Morris, 25, a wages clerk, told the jury of nine men and three women at Stafford Assizes yesterday that her husband arrived home at 4.30 p.m. and not about 2 p.m. as she told the police during their murder inquiries. If a person comes home and acts normally, eats his meals and shows no sign of emotion, you can't really believe she added. Mrs. Morris wearing an orange coat and beige coloured fur hat, gave evidence without looking at her husband, who is sitting in the dock. He is Raymond Leslie Morris, 39, a foreman engineer, of Regent House Green Lane, Walsall, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Christine Darby, of Camden Street, Walsall, and not guilty to attempting to abduct a girl of 10 by force on Nov. 4, 1968. He has pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting a five year old girl in August 1968. Photo Shows: The accused man's wife, Mrs. Carol Morris (on right), with her mother, Mrs. Edith Pearce, yesterday

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