Age: 39
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Apr 1931
Execution Place: Manchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4631495
Francis Land murdered his girlfriend Sarah Ellen Johnson 24 whose throat he cut at 3 Waterhouse Place, Rochdale on 12 December 1930.
Sarah Johnson had left her husband to go and live with Francis Land. When convicted he maintained that he was innocent.
