Sidney Harry Fox and his mother Rosaline enjoyed staying at expensive hotels up and down the coast of southeast England, although they could rarely afford to pay. The staff at the Hotel Metropole in Paradise Street, Margate, were charmed by Sidney, who seemed so considerate and devoted to his mother. Little did they know that behind this performance, lay a history of fraud and deceit which would lead to the final act of murder.

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Ancestry
Commonwealth War Graves
Gloucester Citizen 7 December 1929
Daily Herald - Friday 14 March 1930
Western Gazette - Friday 14 March 1930
London Daily Chronicle - Monday 17 March 1930
Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 27 March 1930
London Daily Chronicle - Tuesday 08 April 1930
Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 17 April 1930
Hampshire Telegraph - Friday 25 April 1930
Sunday Mirror 2 October 1949
Liverpool Echo 15 December 1959
Tonbridge Free Press 2 January 1959
The Sunday Express, 31 July 1960
Mostly Murder by Sir Sydney Smith
Seaside Murders J.Goodman
Mama’s Boy by Bill Waddell