Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 23 Apr 1913
Crime Location: Abdys Farm, Kimberworth
Execution Place: Wakefield
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4151573
Walter William Sykes was convicted of the murders of Amy Nicholson 10 and Frances Alice Nicholson 7 and sentenced to death.
He cut their throats at Abdy's Farm, Kimberworth on 15 November 1912. It was also thought that he had outraged Amy Collinson although the medical evidence put forward said that she had been outraged some days before the murders.
see National Archives - HO 144/1240/230886
see The Abdy Farm Murders: Who killed two little girls at Kimberworth? by Jeannette Hensby
see Papers Past
see Facebook
see Homicide 1913
