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 ...

On January 9, 1923, Edith Thompson—a London-born woman then age 29—was hanged for the murder of her husband. So too, at the same moment, was her 20-year-old lover Freddy Bywaters.

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 ...

When Edith Thompson was 29 years old, ... 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.

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.