Thomas Billings

Catherine Hayes and Thomas Billings were convicted of the murder of her husband John Hayes.

Catherine Hayes came from Birmingham but later went to work for the father of John Hayes in Warwickshire where she started seeing John Hayes and soon after they were married in secret. After John Hayes father discovered that they had married he set him up in business as a carpenter, but Catherine Hayes was restless and talked John Hayes into enlisting and he was sent to the Isle of Wight where she followed him.