British Executions

Cyril Victor Tennyson Saunders

Age: 21

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 30 Nov 1920

Crime Location: 30 Percy Terrace, Lipson, Plymouth

Execution Place: Exeter

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Cyril Victor Tennyson Saunders was convicted of the murder of his 16-year-old cousin Dorothy May Saunders and sentenced to death.

He stabbed her to death in a shop at 30 Percy Terrace, Lipson, Plymouth on 23 September 1920.

see National Archives - HO 144/1693/410823

see Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 26 September 1920

see Homicide 1920