George Henry Whelpton

George Henry Whelpton murdered his girlfriend Alison Gertrude Parkin 48, Joyce Parkin 23 and Maurice Parkin 15 at 4 Wainwright Road, Doncaster on 9 October 1947. He strangled them all.

He was a married bus driver and had been seeing Alison Parkin who was a widow 17 years older than him for about 3 months.

In court he claimed insanity saying that he didnt know what he did, the bodies were found strangled and mutilated. He said that there was an argument during which Alison Parkin picked something up and hit him and then he got hold of her and she dropped to the floor. After he said he went out and when he came back in Maurice Parkin attacked him and he hit him and he fell to the floor and then he saw Joyce Parkin in the living room who he hit causing her to als fall to the floor.

The bodies of Alison Parkin and Joyce Parkin were both naked. A blood stained poker was also found in the house.