Posts Tagged ‘fredjeffs’


I Am Birmingham

19Oct20

You’ve heard of Sutton Park, but here is Sutton’s answer to ‘Parky’. Vimal Korpal interviews me about the launch of the Fred Jeffs Podcast for I Am Birmingham. Enjoy.


Fred Jeffs: The Sweetshop Murder A ‘true-crime’ mystery set in Birmingham and the Black Country, in the English Midlands. Graeme Rose investigates the real unsolved murder of his great uncle, sweetshop-owner Fred Jeffs, on Good Friday 1957, by talking to people who remember the case. Rose attempts to find answers and understand what really happened […]


On this day sixty years ago, 19th April 1957, Frederick Jeffs’s life came to a brutal end. Fred was my grandad’s half-brother. He spent – as my grandad did – much of the second world war holed up in a prisoner-of-war camp. At some point late in the war – probably following the Death-march westwards from Auschwitz-Blechammer […]