George William Parker

George William Parker was convicted of the murder of Mary Elizabeth Spillar 26 and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat in Dover on 22 July 1911.

Mary Spillar was single but had three children by another man. In April 1911 the man left Dover and George Parker went to lodge with Mary Spillar's step-mother. It was heard that George Parker had been intimate with Mary Spillar for some time and it was thought that they had been being intimate before the other man had left Mary Spillar.

Then, about five weeks before the murder George Parker took a room in the same house as Mary Spillar and for three weeks he was in work and paid the rent and fed Mary Spillar and her children.