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The coroner said that Mrs Lennon did not appear to look either wayīut it was more complicated than that. Julia, then 44, was hit head-on by Eric's Standard VanguardĬar, thrown high in the air, and killed instantly on the night of JulyĪ post-mortem later revealed that she had died of massive brainĪn inquest into the accident a month later recorded a verdict of He hardened and his humour became more weird." Walley, said: "I witnessed the tragedy and I know what a terrible Lennon's friend and former manager of the Quarrymen, Chris "Ever since the Beatles became famous I have been expecting
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Now, 40 years on, we have tracked down the driver who killedįormer police constable Eric Clague, now 64, said: "I haveīeen haunted by this for all these years. If Julia had not stepped off that pavement on that fateful evening, He emerged from mourning a cynical boy with a chip on his shoulderĪnd seemingly at odds with the world. He was instantly transformed from a happy-go-lucky lad with a mateĬalled Paul McCartney and an amateurish band called the Quarrymen into John Lennon became stemmed from that moment. He found it impossible to forget the tragedy. Yes, it was that John Lennon, the Beatle who transformed pop music That all the fame that he enjoyed in later life, the riches beyond Her 17-year-old son John was plunged into such a depth of sorrow Menlove Avenue, in Liverpool - on her way to catch a bus to Penny Lane. The sort of everyday tragedy that devastates families, and leavesīut when Julia Lennon (right) was fatally run over as she crossed Thump of metal against flesh, a woman lying dead, killed instantly by a APA style: I killed the mother of John Lennon and changed the course of history OUR THREE-PAGE INSIGHT INTO THE MAKING OF A BEATLE HE WAS A POLICEMAN AND AN UNACCOMPANIED LEARNER DRIVER WHEN JOHN LENNON'S MUM STEPPED OUT INTO THE ROAD.I killed the mother of John Lennon and changed the course of history OUR THREE-PAGE INSIGHT INTO THE MAKING OF A BEATLE HE WAS A POLICEMAN AND AN UNACCOMPANIED LEARNER DRIVER WHEN JOHN LENNON'S MUM STEPPED OUT INTO THE ROAD." Retrieved from
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