Age: 30
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 12 Nov 1941
Crime Location: 9 Goring Way, Greenford
Execution Place: Pentonville
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Encyclopaedia-Executions-John-Eddleston/dp/184454058
Lionel Rupert Nathan Watson was convicted of the murder of Phyllis Elizabeth Crocker 28 and Eileen Alice Crocker 18m.
Lionel Watson was already married with 4 children when he moved in with Phyllis Crocker at 9 Goring Way, Greenford in 1940. He had met her at the Hoover factory in Perivale when they had both worked there between January 1940 and August 1940 when Phyllis Crocker left. After Phyllis Crocker left, in September or October 1940, Lionel Watson moved in with her at 9 Goring Way. He had intended to marry her properly but when his current wife would not give him a divorce he married her bigamously in January 1941.
see National Archives - PCOM 9/826, CRIM 1/1337, DPP 2/898, MEPO 3/2186
see Murder by Poison: A Casebook of Historic British Murders By Nicola Sly
see Hanged at Pentonville By Steve Fielding
see Trove
