On 9 January 1923 Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters were executed for the murder of her husband, even though there was no evidence she knew he would be stabbed. Why was she convicted ...

FEISTY Edith Thompson wrote to lover Frederick Bywaters fantasising about how murder could be her way out of dull suburbia. But 100 years on, debate still rages about whether this crime of passion ...

In January 1923 Edith Thompson, aged 29, and her lover Frederick Bywaters, aged 20, were hanged for the murder of her husband. Bywaters had stabbed Percy Thompson during a scuffle on a street close to ...

A month earlier she and her lover, Frederick Bywaters, had been convicted of the murder of her husband Percy and sentenced to death. Edith was 29 years old; Freddy was just 20.

Edith Thompson (no relation to the author) was charged with plotting the murder of her husband, Percy, a crime actually carried out by Edith’s lover, Freddie Bywaters, on October 2, 1922.

On 9 January 1923 Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters were executed for the murder of her husband, even though there was no evidence she knew he would be stabbed. Why was she convicted ...

On 9 January 1923 Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters were executed for the murder of her husband, even though there was no evidence she knew he would be stabbed. Why was she convicted ...