British Executions

Jean Pierre Vaquier

Age: 45

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 12 Aug 1924

Crime Location: Blue Anchor Hotel, Byfleet

Execution Place: Wandsworth

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

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

Jean Vaquier was convicted of the murder of 38-year-old Alfred George Poynter Jones and sentenced to death.

He poisoned him with strychnine at the Blue Anchor Hotel, Byfleet, Surrey on 29 March 1924.

see National Archives - MEPO 3/1604, HO 144/4081

see Wikipedia

see Lincolnshire Echo - Friday 13 June 1924

see London Daily Chronicle - Wednesday 11 June 1924