Join me for the final episode in the Albert Pierrepoint series. In this instalment I will look at the what lead to the abolition of capital punishment, and visit some key cases, from the hanging of Edith Thompson to the final executions of Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans.

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Pierrepoint: Executioner an autobiography
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/inflation-calculator https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b47213&seq=673&format=plaintext Report from the Select Committee on Capital Punishment together with the Proceedings of the Committee, and the Minutes of evidence, taken before the Select Committee on Capital Punishment in 1929-1930, together with Appendices and Index. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 9th December, 1930 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/11-12/58#:~:text=An%20Act%20to%20abolish%20penal,law%20relating%20to%20the%20proceedings https://socialistworker.co.uk/features/the-clerkenwell-explosion-and-why-the-fenians-mattered/ https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/today-in-terrorism-december-13-1867-clerkenwell-outrage/ https://dbpedia.org/page/Clerkenwell_explosion http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Timeline/Execution.htm https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/timeline.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/wells.html https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/modern-britain/capital-punishment-in-uk/#:~:text=The%20'new%20drop'%20gallows%20were,fell%20through%20a%20trap%20door.&text=The%20'long%20drop'%20was%20introduced,the%20convict%20dying%20by%20suffocation. https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/short%20drop.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hanging1.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zgx94xs/revision/4 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/longdrop.html https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/child.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28688474 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/36/enacted https://core.ac.uk/reader/74371960 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Smith_(infanticide)#:~:text=Rebecca%20Smith%20(n%C3%A9e%20Prior%3B%20chr,publicly%20hanged%20at%20Devizes%2C%20Wiltshire. https://www.facebook.com/WiltshireMuseum/photos/tale-of-a-famous-devizes-executionthe-story-of-rebecca-smithpainting-from-the-co/10157672868944195/?locale=sr_RS&paipv=0&eav=AfYMzJaRmcd9_i1P14hgIX8I1VVyMYds1IZfwZ6oHYUG_cJbgG4fhUolv7HBDGODfMg&_rdr https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Rebecca%20Smith.html https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1931/jun/18/sentence-of-death-expectant-mothers-bill https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/21-22/24/enacted#:~:text=An%20Act%20to%20prohibit%20the,for%20other%20purposes%20connected%20therewith. https://first100years.org.uk/abolishing-juries-of-matrons/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleading_the_belly https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Ann-Cotton Daily Mirror - Thursday 18 March 1982 Daily Mirror - Tuesday 12 July 1983 Western Daily Press - Wednesday 12 August 1964 Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) - Saturday 11 July 1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Alan_West https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-28687221 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/allen_evans.html https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/story-preston-men-who-were-18513267 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/13/britain-last-executions-hanging-criminals-low-key https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/10/the-last-executions/ https://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/evans-gwynne.htm https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/allen-peter-anthony.htm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2722104/Cell-doors-flung-open-12-pace-walk-hanged-Last-moments-final-two-men-executed-Britain-remembered-50-years-on.html https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/the-two-men-who-walked-to-their-death-and-into-the-history-books-1836919 https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2015/nov/09/death-penalty-uk-fifty-years-1965-capital-punishment https://jaquo.com/last-men-hanged-britain/ https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/16431793.cumbria-murderer-was-victim-of-miscarriage-of-justice/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42370943 https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1692238/capital-punishment-gwynne-evans-peter-allen-spt https://www.lancs.live/news/local-news/cumbrian-murder-led-last-executions-18250260 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/son-last-man-hanged-britain-7080170 https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-walton-prison-saw-last-7561447 https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/a-gruesome-anniversary-in-manchester/ https://www.m-sport.co.uk/dovenby-hall-history https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/1914-1945/mental-deficiency-between-the-wars/ https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap28653/stoke-park-colony https://beyondthepoint.co.uk/a-history-of-mental-asylums/ https://www.ft.com/content/754d511d-2c08-437d-b3a9-c09e2c69533d

During the 1940's and 1950s there were a series of cases that involved children in the vicinity of Wigan, some of which remain unsolved to this day. While another perpetrated by Norman Green would be the case that became Albert Pierrepoint's final execution. Join me as I explore the solved and unsolved cases, and what led to the most recognisable executioner in British history hanging up his noose.

Resources Pierrepoint: Executioner an autobiography Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 17 June 1942 Bradford Observer - Wednesday 17 June 1942 Liverpool Evening Express - Thursday 18 June 1942 Liverpool Daily Post - Friday 19 June 1942 The Scotsman - Wednesday 01 September 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 01 September 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Tuesday 31 August 1954 The Scotsman - Thursday 14 October 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 08 September 1954 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 28 August 1954 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 01 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Monday 06 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 07 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 14 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 09 November 1954 Liverpool Echo - Wednesday 22 September 1954 Leicester Evening Mail - Saturday 28 August 1954 Manchester Evening News - Friday 17 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 08 September 1954 Manchester Evening News - Monday 30 August 1954 https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=5&id=31073&gallery=Scholes&offset=0 Belfast News-Letter - Monday 21 June 1954 Daily Mirror - Monday 21 June 1954 Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 21 June 1954 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 19 July 1954 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Monday 21 June 1954 Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 20 June 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Friday 01 October 1954 Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 01 October 1954 Daily News (London) - Monday 21 June 1954 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 19 July 1954 Manchester Evening News - Monday 21 June 1954 https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6026743.the-madman-who-was-never-caught/ Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 21 November 1945 Daily Dispatch (Manchester) - Thursday 22 November 1945 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 20 December 1945 Daily Mirror - Wednesday 24 October 1945 Manchester Evening News - Monday 21 August 1944 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 19 December 1944 Manchester Evening News - Monday 28 August 1944 Daily Herald - Wednesday 14 April 1948 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 23 August 1944 Daily Mirror - Tuesday 22 August 1944 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 12 September 1944 Nottingham Evening Post - Tuesday 19 September 1944 Manchester Evening News - Friday 01 September 1944 Liverpool Daily Post - Wednesday 24 October 1945 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 06 September 1944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Sheila_Fox https://historicbolton.yolasite.com/sheila-fox.php https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jun/06/helencarter http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=2513&termRef=Sheila%20Fox https://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/732dfuk.html https://medium.com/@yasminscherrer/she-wanted-to-walk-back-home-from-school-a8ecd9a24638 https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/search-continues-60-years-on-1119203 https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6022930.the-last-time-i-saw-sheila-alive/ https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6025598.heartbreak-missing-sheilas-sister/ https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6026474.she-left-the-classroom-and-was-never-seen-again/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-51530/Garden-dig-body-girl-vanished-57-years-ago.html https://www.manchestersfinest.com/articles/unsolved-mysteries-the-girl-in-the-green-mac/ https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30014732.html https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-dig-goes-on-in-hunt-for-missing-1186258 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11727259/The-people-vanished-without-trace-Anguish-unsolved-missing-persons-cases.html Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 13 April 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 11 July 1955 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 16 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 12 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 14 April 1955 Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 12 April 1955 https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=5.0&lat=56.00000&lon=-4.00000&layers=1&b=1 Maps Lower Ince 1907, Published: 1908 (OS 25 inch 1892-1914) Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 27 July 1955 Western Mail - Friday 01 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 07 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 30 June 1955 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 12 April 1955 (photo of Back Hope Street) Liverpool Echo - Thursday 14 April 1955 Daily Herald - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Monday 04 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 14 May 1955 Portsmouth Evening News - Wednesday 06 July 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 27 July 1955 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Wednesday 06 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 02 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Monday 27 June 1955 Liverpool Echo - Thursday 12 May 1955 Leicester Evening Mail - Thursday 30 June 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 15 April 1955 Manchester Evening News - Friday 23 April 1948 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 03 June 1948 Manchester Evening News - Saturday 17 April 1948 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 08 February 1949 Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 08 February 1949 https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6019700.murdered-boys-friend-recalls-stabbing-horror/ https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/6026743.the-madman-who-was-never-caught/ http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=876&termRef=Norman%20William%20Green Aberdeen Evening Express - Wednesday 11 May 1955 Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Thursday 07 July 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Friday 29 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 16 April 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 07 July 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Saturday 14 May 1955 Manchester Evening News - Friday 22 April 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 11 May 1955 Lancashire Evening Post - Friday 06 May 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Wednesday 27 July 1955 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 16 April 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Monday 11 July 1955 Liverpool Daily Post - Saturday 02 July 1955 Liverpool Echo - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 06 July 1955 Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 11 May 1955

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England, but her story was not a simple one, with it being likely that experiences she had throughout her life may have contributed towards her actions on Easter Sunday 1955.
Join me for this the third part of the Ruth Ellis story.

Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/newsid_2525000/2525427.stm#:~:text=The%20strike%20has%20kept%20newspapers,which%20is%20printed%20in%20Manchester.
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/history/woman-hanged-ruth-ellis-hampshire-4192091 https://abortionrights.org.uk/history-of-abortion-law-in-the-uk/ https://care.org.uk/cause/abortion/examining-the-arguments-what-about-backstreet-abortions https://www.historyandpolicy.org/docs/abortion_act_1967.pdf https://peopleshistorynhs.org/encyclopaedia/birth-control-on-the-nhs/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141218-birth-control-pill-contraception-science-medicine-ngbooktalk#:~:text=In%20the%201940s%2C%20available%20birth,and%20intrauterine%20devices%20(IUDs).&text=When%20Pincus%20and%20Rock%20first,obtaining%20women%20for%20their%20trials. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/sep/12/health.medicineandhealth#:~:text=It%20was%20introduced%20in%20the,ages%20of%2016%20and%2049. https://youtu.be/Wo1tVpaNxmw https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/16903503.ruth-ellis-basingstoke-connection-last-woman-executed-uk/ https://www.churchannulment.com/blog/a-guide-to-adultery-and-catholic-annulment#:~:text=Wondering%20whether%20you%20can%20get%20a%20Catholic%20annulment%20after%20you,as%20if%20it%20never%20existed. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/encephalitis-lethargica#:~:text=The%20cause%20of%20encephalitis%20lethargica,a%20year%20after%20the%20illness. https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/other/encephalitis-lethargica/#:~:text=Modern%20reports%20suggest%20that%20perhaps,results%20in%20serious%20neurological%20disability. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828 https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-93.html#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20an%20estimated%20six,%2D1918%2C%20Bruges%3A%E2%80%A6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1914) https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/refugees-tracing-the-belgian-refugees#:~:text=The%20largest%20influx%20of%20refugees,the%20conflict%20after%20Germany%20invaded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/12/ruth-ellis-files-bbc-documentary-murder-case-cant-let-go https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/ruth-ellis-the-model-who-smiled-at-her-executioner-1.3690704 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ruth-ellis-tragedy-little-boy-27590506 https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/ruth-ellis-hanging-capital-punishment-death-penalty/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-woman-hanged-for-murder-in-great-britain

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England, but her story was not a simple one, with it being likely that experiences she had throughout her life may have contributed towards her actions on Easter Sunday 1955.
Join me for this the second part of the Ruth Ellis story.

Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/history/woman-hanged-ruth-ellis-hampshire-4192091 https://abortionrights.org.uk/history-of-abortion-law-in-the-uk/ https://care.org.uk/cause/abortion/examining-the-arguments-what-about-backstreet-abortions https://www.historyandpolicy.org/docs/abortion_act_1967.pdf https://peopleshistorynhs.org/encyclopaedia/birth-control-on-the-nhs/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141218-birth-control-pill-contraception-science-medicine-ngbooktalk#:~:text=In%20the%201940s%2C%20available%20birth,and%20intrauterine%20devices%20(IUDs).&text=When%20Pincus%20and%20Rock%20first,obtaining%20women%20for%20their%20trials. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/sep/12/health.medicineandhealth#:~:text=It%20was%20introduced%20in%20the,ages%20of%2016%20and%2049. https://youtu.be/Wo1tVpaNxmw https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/16903503.ruth-ellis-basingstoke-connection-last-woman-executed-uk/ https://www.churchannulment.com/blog/a-guide-to-adultery-and-catholic-annulment#:~:text=Wondering%20whether%20you%20can%20get%20a%20Catholic%20annulment%20after%20you,as%20if%20it%20never%20existed. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/encephalitis-lethargica#:~:text=The%20cause%20of%20encephalitis%20lethargica,a%20year%20after%20the%20illness. https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/other/encephalitis-lethargica/#:~:text=Modern%20reports%20suggest%20that%20perhaps,results%20in%20serious%20neurological%20disability. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828 https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-93.html#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20an%20estimated%20six,%2D1918%2C%20Bruges%3A%E2%80%A6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1914) https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/refugees-tracing-the-belgian-refugees#:~:text=The%20largest%20influx%20of%20refugees,the%20conflict%20after%20Germany%20invaded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/12/ruth-ellis-files-bbc-documentary-murder-case-cant-let-go https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/ruth-ellis-the-model-who-smiled-at-her-executioner-1.3690704 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ruth-ellis-tragedy-little-boy-27590506 https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/ruth-ellis-hanging-capital-punishment-death-penalty/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-woman-hanged-for-murder-in-great-britain

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England, but her story was not a simple one, with it being likely that experiences she had throughout her life may have contributed towards her actions on Easter Sunday 1955.
Join me for this the first part of the Ruth Ellis story.

Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
A Fine Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/history/woman-hanged-ruth-ellis-hampshire-4192091 https://abortionrights.org.uk/history-of-abortion-law-in-the-uk/ https://care.org.uk/cause/abortion/examining-the-arguments-what-about-backstreet-abortions https://www.historyandpolicy.org/docs/abortion_act_1967.pdf https://peopleshistorynhs.org/encyclopaedia/birth-control-on-the-nhs/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/141218-birth-control-pill-contraception-science-medicine-ngbooktalk#:~:text=In%20the%201940s%2C%20available%20birth,and%20intrauterine%20devices%20(IUDs).&text=When%20Pincus%20and%20Rock%20first,obtaining%20women%20for%20their%20trials. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/sep/12/health.medicineandhealth#:~:text=It%20was%20introduced%20in%20the,ages%20of%2016%20and%2049. https://youtu.be/Wo1tVpaNxmw https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/16903503.ruth-ellis-basingstoke-connection-last-woman-executed-uk/ https://www.churchannulment.com/blog/a-guide-to-adultery-and-catholic-annulment#:~:text=Wondering%20whether%20you%20can%20get%20a%20Catholic%20annulment%20after%20you,as%20if%20it%20never%20existed. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/encephalitis-lethargica#:~:text=The%20cause%20of%20encephalitis%20lethargica,a%20year%20after%20the%20illness. https://www.encephalitis.info/types-of-encephalitis/other/encephalitis-lethargica/#:~:text=Modern%20reports%20suggest%20that%20perhaps,results%20in%20serious%20neurological%20disability. https://www.neurologylive.com/view/encephalitis-lethargica-still-unexplained-sleeping-sickness https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/8/2246/3970828 https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-93.html#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20an%20estimated%20six,%2D1918%2C%20Bruges%3A%E2%80%A6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_invasion_of_Belgium_(1914) https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/refugees-tracing-the-belgian-refugees#:~:text=The%20largest%20influx%20of%20refugees,the%20conflict%20after%20Germany%20invaded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/12/ruth-ellis-files-bbc-documentary-murder-case-cant-let-go https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/ruth-ellis-the-model-who-smiled-at-her-executioner-1.3690704 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/ruth.html https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ruth-ellis-tragedy-little-boy-27590506 https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/ruth-ellis-hanging-capital-punishment-death-penalty/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-woman-hanged-for-murder-in-great-britain

Styllou Christofi was the penultimate woman to hang in England, although she received little media interest, despite the fact that her crime was arguable more brutal, and sensational than that committed by Ruth Ellis the final woman to go to the noose, six months later. Join me as I delve into the case of Styllou Christofi, a true mother in law from hell.

Resources
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry Dundee Courier - Wednesday 15 December 1954 The Scotsman - Thursday 16 December 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Friday 13 August 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Thursday 26 August 1954 Cambridge Daily News - Wednesday 04 August 1954 The Scotsman - Tuesday 14 December 1954 Dundee Courier - Wednesday 25 August 1954 Evening Despatch - Thursday 28 October 1954 https://cyprusscene.com/2015/08/11/cypriot-culture-and-traditions-of-the-past-by-ismail-veli/ https://www.roughguides.com/cyprus/culture-etiquette/ https://sammiswinton.com/2021/06/09/what-you-should-know-about-cypriot-culture-norms-traditions/ https://www.justaboutcyprus.com/traditions/?utm_content=cmp-true https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6066/1/416825.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styllou_Christofi https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/bbc-the-story-of-styllou-christofi-the-penultimate-woman-to-be-executed-in-the-uk/ https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/british-judge-rules-on-styllou-s-conviction https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/christofi.html https://murderpedia.org/female.C/c/christofi-styllou.htm https://www.cyprusalive.com/en/the-story-of-styllou-the-cypriot-murderer-which-as-a-bride-killed-her-mother-in-law-and-as-a-mother-in-law-killed-her-daughter-in-law https://lifestylelibre.blogspot.com/2021/05/murderous-mother-in-law-case-of-styllou.html https://en.famagusta.news/lifestyle/tileorasi/stylloy-christofi-i-kypria-fonissa-se-ntokimanter-toy-bbc-me-protovoylia-toy-eggonoy-tis/ https://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crimearticle/murdering-mother-in-law-goes-to-the-gallows/ https://gizmodo.com/the-case-of-the-killer-who-really-really-hated-her-in-1721361474 https://thecinemaholic.com/is-styllou-pantopiou-christofi-dead-or-alive/ The_Bewildered_Peasant_Family_Migration.pdf The bewildered peasant: family, migration and murder in the Greek Cypriot community in London By Panikos Panayi De Montfort University, United Kingdom Andrekos Varnava Flinders University, Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Wuppertal_in_World_War_II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Silverman Daily Mirror - Thursday 28 October 1954 https://www.ojpas.com/2011_2_2_42-fulltext.html#:~:text=Non%20systematized%20delusion%20extends%20into,a%20plan%20to%20harm%20them. Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 13 May 1955 The Scotsman - Wednesday 06 July 1955 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/lloyd.html http://www.blackkalendar.nl/c/16447/Sarah%20Lloyd Newcastle Journal - Saturday 07 May 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Thursday 10 February 1955 Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 05 July 1955 Bradford Observer - Saturday 12 March 1955 Manchester Evening News - Tuesday 08 February 1955 Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 10 February 1955 Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 05 May 1955 The Scotsman - Saturday 07 May 1955 Bradford Observer - Friday 06 May 1955 Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 22 June 1955

17 years after Albert Pierrepoint assisted his Uncle Tom in the execution of Dorothea Waddingham he would act as the main executioner for Louisa May Merrifield another woman whose chosen weapon was poison.

Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry, published by Pan books ltd.
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
Bradford Observer - Tuesday 21 July 1953 Lancashire Evening Post - Wednesday 22 July 1953 Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 04 August 1953 Shields Daily News- Friday 04 September 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 27 April 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Saturday 25 July 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Monday 20 July 1953 Yorkshire Evening Post - Thursday 06 August 1953 The Scotsman - Wednesday 12 August 1953 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 27 July 1953 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 25 April 1953 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 22 April 1953 Liverpool Echo - Thursday 30 April 1953 Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 15 May 1953 Aberdeen Evening Express - Thursday 23 April 1953 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Saturday 16 May 1953 Daily News (London) - Monday 20 April 1953 Bradford Observer - Monday 20 April 1953 Birmingham Daily Gazette - Monday 20 April 1953 Dundee Courier - Monday 20 April 1953 Daily Record - Monday 20 April 1953 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette - Monday 20 April 1953
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Merrifield https://murderpedia.org/female.M/m/merrifield-louisa.htm https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-poisoner-drunkard-who-murdered-17079890 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/merrifield.html https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/spoonful-jam-rat-poison-story-25417279 https://www.personsunknown.net/p/the-strange-case-of-louisa-merrifield https://beyondtheblackpool.wordpress.com/2020/09/18/louisa-may-merrifield/ https://blackpoolcrime.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/mrs-merrifield-and-mrs-ricketts-1953/ https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Louisa_May_Merrifield https://crimescribe.com/2018/09/18/on-this-day-in-1953-louisa-merrifield-the-blackpool-poisoner/comment-page-1/

In today’s episode I delve into the part Albert Pierrepoint played after the war crime tribunals which occured at the close of the Second World War, and the 1948 execution of a transgender man, whose identity and sexuality may have contributed to them not having their sentence commuted to life in prison.

Resources
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry, published by Pan books ltd.
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
Torbay Express and South Devon Echo - Monday 30 August 1948 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Daily Mirror - Friday 24 September 1948 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 23 September 1948 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 12 January 1949 https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6066/1/416825.pdf DEAD WOMAN WALKING: EXECUTED WOMEN IN ENGLAND & WALES 1900-1955 Anette Ballinger Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 1997 https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/allen-margaret.htm https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/margaret-bill-allen-menopausal-man-25743029 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/allen.html https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/16165677.odd-man-bus-conductor-maggie-allen-really-commit-murder/ https://murderworld771665864.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/the-last-five-women-to-be-hanged-in-britain-no-4-margaret-bill-allen/ https://www.executedtoday.com/2018/01/12/1949-margaret-bill-allen-transgender/ https://www.rossendalefreepress.co.uk/news/new-book-places-question-marks-14519762 https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2020/10/margaretbill-wanted-a-smoke.html Liverpool Echo - Thursday 02 September 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 04 January 1949 Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 12 January 1949 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 13 January 1949 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 18 September 1948 Western Morning News - Monday 30 August 1948 Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Dundee Courier - Monday 30 August 1948 Yorkshire Evening Post - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Daily News (London) - Monday 30 August 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 18 September 1948 Daily Mirror - Thursday 02 September 1948 Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Thursday 23 September 1948 Gloucester Citizen - Monday 30 August 1948 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 30 August 1948 Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 31 August 1948 https://murderworld771665864.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/the-last-five-women-to-be-hanged-in-britain-no-4-margaret-bill-allen/
http://www.bergenbelsen.co.uk/pages/trial/TrialContents/TrialContents.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belsen_trial

In today’s episode I cover the case of the woman, whose execution would be the first female hanging Albert would witness while working as an assistant for his uncle, and lead executioner, Thomas Pierrepoint.

Resources
Portsmouth Evening News - Thursday 30 January 1936 Daily Mirror - Saturday 18 January 1936 Daily Herald - Thursday 30 January 1936 Coventry Evening Telegraph - Friday 07 February 1936 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1449357&resourceID=19191 https://www.workhouses.org.uk/BurtonUponTrent/ http://www.burton-on-trent.org.uk/belvedere-road-workhouse-general-history Daily News (London) - Wednesday 26 February 1936 Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 29 March 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 28 February 1936 Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 04 March 1936 Western Mail - Tuesday 31 March 1936 Gloucestershire Echo - Monday 30 March 1936 Daily News (London) - Monday 24 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 28 February 1936 Nottingham Journal - Tuesday 22 September 1936 Daily News (London) - Thursday 20 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 07 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Thursday 16 April 1936 Dundee Courier - Friday 10 April 1936 Daily News (London) - Thursday 23 January 1936 Cornishman - Thursday 06 February 1936 Daily News (London) - Friday 14 February 1936 Portsmouth Evening News - Monday 13 April 1936 Daily Herald - Friday 14 February 1936 Illustrated Police News - Thursday 24 February 1938
Daughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry, published by Pan books ltd.
Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiography
https://juletrwsll.wordpress.com/2018/08/08/the-lover-the-nurse-and-the-thief-incredible-story-of-three-criminals-hanged-for-murder-at-birmingham-prison/ https://institutionalhistory.com/homepage/prisons/major-prisons/hmp-birmingham-or-birmingham-county-gaol/ https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-10120449.html https://www.thefreelibrary.com/ANGEL+OF+DEATH%3B+Revealed+after+70+years+...+the+Shipman-like+killings...-a0116126885 https://thecinemaholic.com/louisa-baguley-and-ada-baguley-murders-how-did-dorothea-waddingham-die/ https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/waddingham-dorothea-1899-1936 https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tragic-story-last-woman-hanged-13992671 https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/waddingham-dorothea.htm https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/local-news/burton-nurse-murder-executed-892388 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/wadding.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Waddingham#:~:text=Despite%20a%20recommendation%20of%20mercy,by%20his%20nephew%20Albert%20Pierrepoint.

Join me in this episode as I delve into the capture, confessions and conviction of John Christie.

resource
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/european-history/austrian-hungarian-empire/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikanischer_Schutzbund https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-36906504 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817312/ http://www.tourmycountry.com/austria/bad-voslau.htm https://wessyman137.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/christies-life-in-halifax/ http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm https://youtu.be/7wBIU_dXs_A https://youtu.be/Za1C7_7n4ko https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/christie-john.htm https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/a-timeline-of-john-christies-crimes-and-their-discovery-and-the-bits-rillington-place-missed-out/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/timothy-evans-john-christie https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/plymouth-girl-murdered-sick-necrophile-2336843 Frenzy Neil Root The Murders myths and reality of 10 Rillington place. John L Curnow https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/31/christie-and-evans/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(serial_killer)s

After the death of his wife, Ethel, John Chrsite claimed that “after she had gone, the way was clear for me to fulfil my destiny.”
in the proceeding weeks Christie would go on to commit three murders, but before they were his victims they were Rita Nelson, Kathleen Maloney and Hectorina Mclennan each had her own story which I explore in this episode.


Resources
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/how-killers-trail-of-death-led-to-ulster/28076551.html https://www.murdermiletours.com/blog/murder-mile-true-crime-podcast-55-the-other-side-of-10-rillington-place-part-eight-rita-elizabeth-nelson https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/history/christie/trial_10.html https://youtu.be/_I3aTSUWqHE?si=_loDgw9670LVpOKR the sinking of the Princess Victoria
https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/european-history/austrian-hungarian-empire/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republikanischer_Schutzbund https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-36906504 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6817312/ http://www.tourmycountry.com/austria/bad-voslau.htm https://wessyman137.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/christies-life-in-halifax/ http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield6/ethelchristie.htm https://youtu.be/7wBIU_dXs_A https://youtu.be/Za1C7_7n4ko https://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/christie-john.htm https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/johnchristie/ https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/a-timeline-of-john-christies-crimes-and-their-discovery-and-the-bits-rillington-place-missed-out/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/timothy-evans-john-christie https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/history/plymouth-girl-murdered-sick-necrophile-2336843 Frenzy Neil Root The Murders myths and reality of 10 Rillington place. John L Curnow https://history-room.co.uk/2021/03/31/christie-and-evans/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(serial_killer)