British Executions

John Stephenson Bainbridge

Age: 24

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 9 May 1935

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Durham

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4165923

John Stephenson Bainbridge murdered Edward Frederick Herdman 75 by battering him and cutting his throat at 47 Salisbury Place, Bishop Auckland on 31 December 1934.

John Bainbridge, a soldier,  was friends with the daughter of Edward Herdman. She stated that she and John Bainbridge left her father in the house at 7.55pm noting that the clock was 10 minutes fast. Edward Herdman was supposed to be murdered between 7.50 and 9.50pm. The judge noted that if that were true and the clock were not fast then John Bainbridge was innocent. The case was known as the Ten Minute Alibi.