Age: 26
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 28 Jul 1903
Crime Location: Boultham, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Execution Place: Lincoln
Method: hanging
Executioner: William Billington
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Leonard Patchett was convicted of the murder of his wife Sarah Ann Patchett and sentenced to death.
He strangled her in a field at Boultham near Lincoln on Tuesday 26 May 1903. Her body was discovered three days later on 29 May 1903 behind a manure heap.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/33, HO 144/715/109632
see Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Thursday 04 June 1903
see Worcestershire Chronicle - Saturday 01 August 1903
see Eastern Daily Press - Wednesday 29 July 1903
see Homicide 1903
