Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Feb 1925
Crime Location: Tetbury, Long Newnton
Execution Place: Shepton Mallet
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Bignell murdered his girlfriend Margaret Legg 37 whose throat he cut in a field near Tetbury, Long Newnton on 25 October 1924.
William Bignell had entered the army aged 16 as a drummer boy and saw service abroad. In 1917 when at home he made the aquaintance of Margaret Legg who he believed to be a single woman although she was married.
see National Archives - PCOM 8/8
