Mark Shawcross

Mark Shawcross murdered his girlfriend Emily Ramsbottom 27 who he strangled on a footpath near Pink Bank Lane, Gorton, Manchester on 12 May 1909.

Emily Ramsbottom was married but was seperated from her husband and had been living with Mark Shawcross for 4 years. They had argued a number of times but in May 1909 they argued and she left him.

On 13 May 1909 Emily Ramsbottom was found dead in a field having been strangled with a hankerchief.

On 13 May 1909 the police recieved an unsigned letter confessing to her murder. He also wrote a letter to the foreman of a works where he had been employed saying that he might as well die for two as well as one and saying that there would be little of him left in a week and to expect a visit.