#timothy evans

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The Hanging Of Timothy Evans

Timothy Evans was hanged for killing his wife Beryl and daughter Geraldine in 1950. He was, however, innocent of those crimes, which wouldn't be proven for more than a decade.

When Beryl and 14-month-old Geraldine were slain, police focused their entire investigation on Evans, who actually confessed to the crime. He was a nervous man who was known to drink, and the authorities posited he'd done away his pregnant wife and their child over money.

The crime actually took place at the hands of John Christie, a WWI veteran who testified against Evans at his trial. This didn't come to light until 1966, when it was discovered that Christie was a serial killer. The Evans family lived in the same building as Christie and, in 1949, he may have been approached by Beryl for an abortion. It's possible that after Beryl died during the procedure, Christie killed young Geraldine, as well.

After Evans's execution, Christie moved out of the building. Years later, the new tenant smelled the decaying remains of three additional women Christie had killed and hidden behind his kitchen cabinets. More bodies were found in the yard, including Christie's own wife.

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Britain ended the practice of capital punishment after one of the unjust execution of Timothy Evans for the murder of his wife and daughter. Evans accused his neighbor of committing the crime, who was discovered to be a serial killer years later. He had killed six other women. Photo : walesonline.co.uk

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Reg Christie

[WARNING: Graphic Content] (April 8 1899 - July 15 1953)

John Reginald Christie, known to his friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and necrophile during the 1940s and early 1950s. He murdered at least eight people including his wife, Ethel, by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place.

His crimes went unnoticed until Christie moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953; soon afterwards the bodies of three of his victims were discovered hidden in a wallpaper-covered alcove in the kitchen. Two further bodies were found in the garden, and his wife’s body was found beneath the floorboards of the front room.

Two of Christie’s victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine, who, along with Beryl’s husband, Timothy Evans, were tenants at Rillington Place during 1948 - 1949. Timothy Evans was falsely convicted for these murders.

The police made several mistakes in the handling of the case, especially in overlooking the remains of Christie’s previous murder victims in the garden; a human thigh bone was later found propping up a fence that no-one had previously noticed. The garden was apparently examined but wasn’t excavated. Christie later admitted that his dog had actually unearthed a victim’s skull after the police searches that he threw into an abandoned bombed-out house in a nearby street. Had the police search been conducted effectively, the investigation would have exposed Christie as a murderer, and the lives of four women, including Timothy Evans, would have been saved.

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Terrified face of a doomed innocent- in one of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in British legal history, Timothy Evans was convicted of the murder of his wife and daughter, and in 1950 hanged.

He was convicted for the murder of his wife and infant daughter. During his trial, Evans had accused his downstairs neighbor, John Christie, who was the chief prosecutor’s witness, of committing the murders.

Three years after Evans' execution, Christie was found to be a serial killer who had murdered six other women in the same house, including his own wife. Before his execution, Christie confessed to murdering Mrs. Evans. An official inquiry concluded in 1966 that Christie had also murdered Evans' daughter, and Evans was granted a posthumous pardon.

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Timothy Evans

[WARNING: Graphic Content] (November 20 1924 - March 9 1950)

Timothy Evans’ wife Beryl found out she was pregnant with their second child in 1949 – she was distraught. Their first daughter Geraldine was only 13 months old at the time. Having another baby would mean giving up her part-time job and the family was already short on money. Abortion was illegal then, but their neighbour, Reg Christie persuaded Beryl that he could perform the surgery in his flat.

November 8 1949- Evans came home from work to be told that Beryl had not survived the operation and that Geraldine was staying with a couple in Acton. Christie suggested that Evans leave London to avoid being arrested once the police found out that Beryl died during an illegal abortion.

Evans did as he was told, but three weeks later gave himself up to police in Wales. He was a man of limited intelligence who then made a series of mistakes. His story changed repeatedly: by saying Beryl had died after taking something to procure a miscarriage, by implicating Christie, and by saying that he had killed both his wife and daughter. The police found their bodies hidden in the washhouse.

Evans was poorly defended in court, the jury was not presented with important evidence and as a result, he was hanged at Pentonville prison the following year.

Bittersweet Linings: Evans’ conviction has since been overturned and Reg Christie named as the killer. January 2003- the Home Office awarded Timothy Evans’ half-sister, Mary Westlake, and his sister, Eileen Ashby, ex gratia payments as compensation for the miscarriage of justice in Evans’ trial.

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