Thomas Foster

Thomas Foster was convicted of the murder of his wife 33-year-old Minnie Foster and sentenced to death.

He cut her throat in a back room at 15 Stainsbury Street, Bethnal Green, London on 11 June 1919.

Thomas Foster had been a chairmaker and had been married to Minnie Foster for 15 years and they had five children. However, he was known to have drunk frequently and to have constantly assaulted Minnie Foster and in 1917 she applied for a separation, but a Court Missionary persuaded her to go back on account of the children.

On 31 May 1919 Thomas Foster threw plates at Minnie Foster and knocked her down, and she summoned him for that. However, on 7 June 1919 he knocked her down again and made her nose bleed.