Louisa May Merrifield
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Louisa May Merrifield was a British murderer and the third-last woman to be hanged in the United Kingdom. She was executed by Albert Pierrepoint at Strangeways Prison in Manchester for poisoning her e
Louisa May Merrifield in 1953
339 Devonshire Road in Blackpool – the scene of the murder – photographed in 1953
Alfred Merrifield is arrested
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge wh
Louisa May Merrifield
…pushing the dining table against the sick-bed while he ate his lunch. The anti-death penalty campaigner Violet Van der Elst petitioned the Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe by letter to commute Louisa's death sentence to life in prison. She wrote: The husband ... posed as a kindly and simple old man, never spoke – and it…
Maxwell Fyfe in 1951
Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (centre) and an unknown prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials
Earl of Kilmuir
Sir Winston S Churchill