After Julia separated from her husband, she and the infant Lennon moved in with her new partner, John Albert "Bobby" Dykins, but Mimi twice contacted Liverpool's Social Services and complained about Lennon sleeping in the same bed as Julia and Dykins.
Five years after Smith's death, Lennon's mother was killed on Menlove Avenue-shortly after a visit to Mendips-when she was knocked down by a car driven by a drunk off-duty police officer, PC Eric Clague.