In the last three episodes of this sad tale, we covered the double murder of Major Herbert Heald MBE and his wife Ivy by their only son Kenneth Charles Heald.

Finding the bodies and the note from Kenneth admitting to the crime as he also did later when interviewed by the police.

After the murder, he took his lover Vera Dardanella Yeoman and one of her two sons, David, to London, where the police discovered them.

Before leaving, they had both left letters for her husband. The one left by Heald stated:

‘Dear Charles (Ms Yeoman’s husband), I am terribly sorry about this. I know how I would feel if I were in your place.

'V has assured me that this is what she wants. I want her so terribly too. I assure you I will do my best to take care of her and David (her son).’

In the meantime, the Metropolitan Police had entered the hotel suite in London and arrested Kenneth Charles Heald.

They opened the locked suitcase during the room search and found the murder weapon, a fully loaded Webley revolver.

As the police were searching, Kenneth said to Mrs Yeoman, “look darling, you will hear a lot of bad things about me. I am not so bad, am I?”

Kenneth Charles Heald was taken back to Southport Borough Headquarters, where he was interviewed, making a full admission, and charged with the murder of his parents.

He was tried at Liverpool Assizes in front of Mr Justice Oliver charged with the murder of Major Herbert Heald, aged 59 years and his wife Mrs Ivy Heald, aged 48 years, at their home in Liverpool Road, Ainsdale, on Saturday, April 13, 1946.

He pleaded not guilty. His barrister explained that he had a personality disorder, schizophrenic trends, not the illness itself.

The jury was out for seven minutes and returned a verdict of guilty but insane. The judge said that Heald had a Jekyll and Hyde personality and ordered him to be detained until His Majesty’s pleasure is known.

Kenneth Heald was sent to Broadmoor Hospital for the criminally insane. He remained there receiving treatment by psychiatrists.

Seven years later, the powers that be at Broadmoor declared Heald cured and could now be released. And the man with the mended mind was released at the grand old age of 31!

He found it hard to get a job after release, and his life's progress is not known.

In 1989 he married a lady in Vale Royal.

Ten years later, his address was in Eddisbury Hill Park, Delamere, and he died in 1999 whilst living there, aged 75 years. His body was cremated at Altrincham Crematorium.