Tom Russell was the resident for a very short period of the bedsit flat across the landing from the one occupied by Bet Lynch at 44 Victoria Street. The flat had previously been occupied by a Spanish waiter, Carlos, and Bet was unaware that he had suddenly moved back home when she knocked on his door one evening in March 1976 and Tom answered in his place. Bet introduced herself and he later came to her for change for the phone in the communal hallway. He got no reply to his call and when he returned the money, Bet offered him a drink from an opened bottle of red wine she had. She refused his cigarette as she was trying to give up and he said he was doing the same. He told her he was an engineer who had come looking for work in the area from Wallasey though he wasn’t born there. He used to