Police appeal on 25th anniversary of triple murder

Harold, Mary and Harold Junior Credit: West Midlands Police

Police are appealing for information about a triple murder that happened exactly 25 years ago today in Birmingham.

The bodies of husband and wife, Harold and Mary Smith, and their paralysed son, Harold Smith Junior, were found in their home in Overbury Close in Northfield.

They were bound at the wrists and stabbed multiple times.

Harold and Mary Smith were aged 72. Their son, Harold Smith Junior, was 47.

Following advances in forensic science, officers say they will be reviewing evidence from 1992.