Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Apr 1920
Crime Location: Church Street, Middlesborough
Execution Place: Leeds
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Miles McHugh was convicted of the murder of his 24-year-old girlfriend Edith Annie Swainston and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat in a passage between Church Street and Fleetham Street in Middlesborough on 24 January 1920.
see National Archives - HO 144/1624/399763
see National Library of Scotland
see Leeds Mercury - Tuesday 27 January 1920 (photo)
see Homicide 1920
