British Executions

Richard Clifford Brinkley

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