British Executions

Leonard Holmes

Age: 32

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 28 May 1946

Crime Location: Central Avenue, Walesby

Execution Place: Lincoln

Method: hanging

Executioner: unknown

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

Leonard Holmes murdered his wife Peggy Agnes Holmes 29 who he battered and strangled at Central Avenue, Walesby on 19 November 1945.

He beat her to death with a hammer head.

see National Archives - DPP 2/1451