Leonard Pachett

Strangled his wife Sarah Ann Pachett at Boultham, Lincoln on Tuesday, 26th May, 1903.

Leonard Patchett, a twenty six year old Lincoln scafolder was sentenced to death for strangling his wife because she had left him for another man. After committing the crime, he told a workmate that the next time he went up the scaffold he would have a rope put around his neck. Convicted at Lincolnshire Assizes before Mr Justice Ridley and hanged by William and John Billington on the 28th July 1903 in Lincoln.