10 Rillington Place

On the 9th of March, 1950, Tomothy Evans was hanged at Pentonville Prison for the murder of his wife Beryl and one year-old baby Geraldine. Despite an appeal and some confusing events leading up to the trial - Evans had confessed but could not be charged initially as no bodies could be located - the death penalty was the only option available at that time in British Justice for the crime of murder. The case was eventually to lead to one of the most publicised miscarriages of justice in modern penal history.

When police discovered the body of a partially clothed body - which had been uncovered by workmen in the kitchen - there was at first a revelation that two murderers had been living at the very same address. A manhunt was launched for the previous tenant - John Reginald Halliday Christie - and on the 31st of March, 1953 he was arrested on the embankment of the river Thames near Putney Bridge. The truth however, would lead police to realise that there had ever only ever been one killer living at 10 Rillington Place.