Age: 53
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 13 Aug 1907
Crime Location: 32 Churchill Road, Croydon
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Richard Clifford Brinkley was convicted of the murders of 55-year-old Richard Beck and 57-year-old Elizabeth Beck and sentenced to death.
He poisoned them with prussic acid at 32 Churchill Road, Croydon on 20 April 1907.
see National Archives - HO 144/854/151898
see Longford Journal - Saturday 27 April 1907
see Penny Illustrated Paper - Saturday 27 July 1907
see Leeds Mercury - Thursday 25 July 1907
see Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper - Sunday 28 April 1907
see Dublin Evening Telegraph - Monday 22 July 1907
see Homicide 1907