Age: 21
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 8 Mar 1950
Crime Location: Cycle shed at Sir John Leman School, Beccles
Execution Place: Norwich
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
James Frank Rivett murdered his girlfriend Christine Ruth Cuddon 17 who he strangled in a cycle shed at Sir John Leman School, Beccles on 5 November 1949. She was strangled with her head scarf.
At the trial he pleaded guilty but his councel pleaded not guilty for him against his will, pleading instead guilty but insane.
see Dundee Courier - Saturday 28 January 1950
see National Archives - DPP 2/1917, ASSI 36/103, ASSI 90/25
