Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 13 Apr 1920
Crime Location: Lytham St Annes, Lancashire
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Frederick Rothwell Holt was convicted of the murder of his 26-year-old girlfriend Kathleen Harriett Elsie Breaks and sentenced to death.
He shot her three times with a revolver on the beach at Lytham St Annes on 23 December 1919. At his trial the prosecution claimed that he had shot her in order to claim on her £5,000 insurance policy.
see National Archives - HO 144/1619/397413, ASSI 52/309
see Daily Mirror - Monday 23 February 1920 (photo of Frederick Holt)
see Daily Mirror - Saturday 28 February 1920 (photos of Frederick Holt, Kathleen Breaks and Manchester Assizes)
see The Gazette
see Murderpedia
see National Library of Scotland
see Homicide 1920
