East Africa & Rhodesia - 7/6/56 - Mr John Hutson was fatally stabbed last week by an African whom he caught breaking into his house in Kisumu. Mr Hutson, aged 39, was one of the party of 80 Allied Airmen who escaped from Stalag Luft III in Germany in 1944. Fifty of them were shot, and only three reached the Allied lines. Mrs Hutson has three young children.

Gazette 11 Dec 1956 probate for John Clifford Hutson who d. Kisumu 30 May 1956 required by his widow Isobel Margaret

[But in The Great Escape blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/project-wo-416-private-enterprise/ the Hutson who escaped is James Thomas Hutson. In the Wikipedia entry List of Allied Airmen from the Great Escape John Clifford Hutson is not in the list of those who were murdered or those who survived.]