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1940s murders in the United Kingdom

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The list 1940s murders in the United Kingdom includes John Christie (murderer), Timothy Evans, Death of June Anne Devaney, Neville Heath and Emily Armstrong. The list consists of 19 members and 11 sublists.

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    John Christie (murderer)

    English serial killer (1899–1953)
    John Christie (murderer)
    Overview: John Reginald Halliday Christie (8 April 1899 – 15 July 1953), known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and alleged necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s ...
    Date of birth: 8 April 1899
    Date of death: 15 July 1953
    Age: 54 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Criminal
    Gender: Male
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    Death of June Anne Devaney

    English murder victim
    Overview: The murder of June Anne Devaney was the murder of a girl aged 3 years 11 months which occurred on 15 May 1948 in which June Anne Devaney was abducted from her cot while an inpatient at Queen's Park Hospital ...
    Date of death: 15 May 1948
    Occupation: Criminal
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    Neville Heath

    British murderer
    Neville Heath
    Overview: Neville George Clevely Heath (6 June 1917 – 16 October 1946) was an English murderer who killed two young women. He was executed in London in October 1946.
    Date of birth: 6 June 1917
    Date of death: 16 October 1946
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Criminal
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    Emily Armstrong

    British victim of an unsolved murder
    Overview: Emily Frances Armstrong (c. 1880 – April 14, 1949) was a British victim of an unsolved murder. She had been beaten to death and later found at her place of employment, a dry cleaner's shop on St John's ...
    Date of birth: 1880
    Date of death: 1949
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
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    John George Haigh

    English serial killer (1909–1949)
    John George Haigh
    Overview: John George Haigh (24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer who was convicted for the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed ...
    Date of birth: 24 July 1909
    Date of death: 10 August 1949
    Age: 40 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Criminal
    Gender: Male
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    Timothy Evans

    Welsh, Victim
    Timothy Evans
    Overview: Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welshman wrongfully accused of the murder of his wife and infant daughter at their residence at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London. In ...
    Date of birth: 20 November 1924
    Date of death: 9 March 1950
    Age: 25 (age at death)
    Nationality: Welsh
    Occupation: Victim
    Gender: Male
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    Gordon Cummins

    BRitish spree killer
    Gordon Cummins
    Overview: Gordon Frederick Cummins (18 February 1914 – 25 June 1942) was a British serial killer known as the Blackout Killer, the Blackout Ripper and the Wartime Ripper who committed the murders of four women and ...
    Date of birth: 18 February 1914
    Date of death: 25 June 1942
    Age: 28 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Criminal
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    Olive Balchin

    1946 murder in Manchester, England
    Overview: Olive Balchin (c. 1906 – 20 October 1946) was a British murder victim whose body was found near a bomb site in Manchester, England. The murder weapon, a bloodstained hammer of a leather beater, was found ...
    Date of birth: 1906
    Date of death: 1946
    Age: 39 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
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    Udham Singh

    Indian revolutionary
    Udham Singh
    Overview: Udham Singh (26 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was an Indian revolutionary best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer on 13 March 1940 in what has been described as an avenging of the Jallianwalla Bagh ...
    Date of birth: 26 December 1899
    Date of death: 31 July 1940
    Age: 40 (age at death)
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    John Bodkin Adams

    British physician and fraudster (1899–1983)
    John Bodkin Adams
    Overview: John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was a British general practitioner, convicted fraudster, and suspected serial killer. Between 1946 and 1956, 163 of his patients likely died while ...
    Date of birth: 21 January 1899
    Date of death: 4 July 1983
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: Irish
    Occupation: Doctor
    Gender: Male
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    Murder of Muriel Drinkwater

    Unsolved 1946 Welsh child murder case
    Murder of Muriel Drinkwater
    Overview: The murder of Muriel Drinkwater is an unsolved 1946 child murder case from Wales. Drinkwater, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, was raped and shot in the woods in Penllergaer, Swansea. The case became known as ...
    Date of death: 27 June 1946
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    Overview: Margaret Cook was a woman who was shot dead in 1946 outside the Blue Lagoon nightclub in Carnaby Street, London. In 2015 a man living in Canada confessed to the shooting.
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    Jack William Avery

    British policeman, murdered on duty
    Overview: Jack William Avery was a War Reserve Constable who was murdered in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1940, having served less than one year with the Metropolitan Police Service.
    Date of death: 6 July 1940
    Nationality: British
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    Michael O'Dwyer

    British colonial administrator (1864–1940)
    Michael O'Dwyer
    Overview: Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer GCIE KCSI (28 April 1864 – 13 March 1940) was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in India from 1912 until 1919. O'Dwyer endorsed General Reginald Dyer's action regarding ...
    Date of birth: 1864
    Date of death: 13 March 1940
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Politician
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    August Sangret

    Canadian murderer
    August Sangret
    Overview: August Sangret (28 August 1913 – 29 April 1943) was a French-Canadian soldier, convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1942 murder of 19-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe in Surrey, England. This murder ...
    Date of birth: 28 August 1913
    Date of death: 29 April 1943
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Military
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    Thomas Ley

    Australian and English murderer and politician
    Thomas Ley
    Overview: Thomas John Ley (28 October 1880 – 29 July 1947) was an Australian politician who was convicted of murder in England. He is widely suspected to have been involved in the deaths of a number of people ...
    Date of birth: 28 October 1880
    Date of death: 29 July 1947
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Politician
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    Cameo murder

    1949 double murder in Liverpool, England
    Overview: On the evening of 19 March 1949, the Cameo cinema in Liverpool, England, was the scene of a brutal double murder which led to a miscarriage of justice and the longest trial in British history at the time ...
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    Overview: The cleft chin murder was a killing which occurred as part of a string of crimes during 1944, and was mentioned in George Orwell's essay "Decline of the English Murder". It became known as the "cleft ...
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    Rayleigh bath chair murder

    1943 homicide in Rayleigh, Essex, England
    Overview: The Rayleigh bath chair murder was a 1943 incident of patricide in which a disabled man was killed in Rayleigh, Essex, England. An anti-tank grenade had been rigged to his hooded wheelchair, a conveyance ...
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