British Executions

Lee Doon

Age: 27

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 5 Jan 1923

Crime Location: 231 Crookes, Sheffield

Execution Place: Leeds

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

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

Lee Doon was convicted of the murder of 34-year-old Sing Lee and sentenced to death.

He battered and strangled him to death at 231 Crookes, Sheffield on 9 September 1922 and put him in a trunk which he buried in the cellar.

see National Archives - HO 144/2740

see Chris Hobbs

 

see Homicide 1923