British Executions

Edmund Hugh Tonbridge

Age: 38

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 18 Apr 1922

Crime Location: Towing Path, River Lea, Spring Hill, Clapton

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Edmund Hugh Tunbridge was convicted of the murder of his 24-year-old girlfriend Margaret Evans and sentenced to death.

He poisoned her with prussic acid on the towpath of the River Lea, Spring Hill, Clapton, London on 14 January 1922.

see National Archives - MEPO 3/1569, CRIM 1/199/1, HO 144/1763/430432

see Homicide 1922