Age: 29
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 7 Apr 1922
Crime Location: Chaddesden, Derby
Execution Place: Nottingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Percy James Atkin was convicted of the murder of his wife 27-year-old Maud Atkin and sentenced to death.
He buried her alive in an allotment at Chaddesden, near Derby on 21 November 1921.
see National Archives - PCOM 8/4, ASSI 13/52, HO 144/1762/429869
see Nottingham Evening Post - Wednesday 04 January 1922 (photo of Percy Atkins)
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 12 January 1922
see Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 08 January 1922 (images)
see Homicide 1922
