Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 9 Apr 1918
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Louis Van De Kerkhove was convicted of the murder of his girlfriend Clemence Verelst 35 and sentenced to death.
He stabbed her in room 10, on the third floor of the Shaftesbury Hotel in Station Street, Birmingham on 13 January 1918.
see National Archives - ASSI 13/48, HO 144/1493/358854
see The Scotsman - Tuesday 19 March 1918
see Dundee Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 09 April 1918
see Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 10 April 1918
see Homicide 1918
