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PC James Davies was patrolling his route near Beoley, before he was brutally murdered. Over 150 years on, he is said to still wander his route, north of Redditch. He was killed, in a grizzly affair, in the dead of night, on 28 February 1885. The man convicted of his death, Moses Shrimpton, ended up as the last man to be hanged at Worcester Gaol. Memorials to the 33-year-old were quick to be established, even in the nineteenth century, with a spot on Icknield Street created at the site the murder took place. Whilst it was tended to by local police forces over the years, it has since become lost in the undergrowth, with now his grave in Beoley Church as the location for remembrance services. Ben Workman hears from local historians Vanessa Morgan and Clem Dalloway.