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The Real Crime Diary Blog Legal and Courtroom Tales from The Hangman’s Record. Episode Fifty Eight. Lock Ah Tam – 23rd March 1926, Liverpool.
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Tales from The Hangman’s Record. Episode Fifty Eight. Lock Ah Tam – 23rd March 1926, Liverpool.



What drove a genial Chinese shipping agent to shoot dead his wife and two daughters? The murder of Catherine, Cecelia and Doris Ah Tam by Lock Ah Tam at Birkenhead, Cheshire, December 1925.
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    @richardsnow7299 July 3, 2024

    Just subscribed. Most interesting many thanks

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    @suesmith3744 July 3, 2024

    What a horrible and tragic story … good grief 💔

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    @mrmods7912 July 3, 2024

    Buck Ruxton 1935…A landmark case for forensics!

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    @Liam-xh9bo July 3, 2024

    Steve. Great content. Have you ever done anything on Ethel Major. I have seen the condemned cell at Hull.( of course it’s just a water cupboard now) but I’ve seen the inside of d- wing and where it happened.

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    @davidnelson257 July 3, 2024

    Excellent as always Steve. Tragic and probably really not his fault. Traumatic brain injuries can cause huge personality changes. Reminds me of the case of Phineas Gage. The guy who survived a rod blown through his brain.

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    @garyhunter2866 July 3, 2024

    Great work as ever, Steve.

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    @derekstocker6661 July 3, 2024

    Justice was served, what a shame we cannot even get a real Life Sentence for even double killers now!

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    @littlebigman5791 July 3, 2024

    How about covering the story of Ethel lillie major who was the last woman banged at hull prison

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    @robertkimber822 July 3, 2024

    A very sad story, expertly told. Thank you, Steve!

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    @adrianandkatrinadove203 July 3, 2024

    another fascinating case Steve..I think the fact he telephoned the police meant he knew what he had done….i wonder what the argument with his wife was actually about ??…..

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    @shaunelliott2967 July 3, 2024

    Could you please research the murder of a old woman shop keeper in Pontefract, West Yorkshire in the early 1900s which lead to the offender being put to death in armley jail please

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    @merseybeast76 July 3, 2024

    My mother was a toddler when this happened. She lived a few streets away and for years after, children in Birkenhead were told to behave or Lock Ah Tam will get them

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    @sandrablood5473 July 3, 2024

    Hi Steve. First of all I love your videos. Could you consider covering the case of William Meffin from Derby who murdered his stepdaughter in the 1940s. My mother worked with William and she told me the story of love and jealousy. Thanks. Sandra

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    @OM617a July 3, 2024

    The verdict and outcome was correct in my opinion.

    There was no mention of a sporting or functional need for this man to possess a shotgun, this says there was more to his character than the charitable entrepreneur.

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    @mind76 July 3, 2024

    Would you do Scottish cases in the future ? There is not much existing documentary covering them as compared to English and Welsh cases. For example, there is not much details available for the two last executions in Scotland of Anthony Miller and Henry Burnett. The latter got the death sentence under Homicide Act 1957 because a firearm was involved. I'm not Scottish. Just interested in those cases.

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    @elizabethm8193 July 3, 2024

    I have seen the family grave in Flaybrick cemetery but I didn’t know the story it’s a shame he couldn’t be laid to rest with them . Thank you it was very interesting ❤

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    @gm6hgw July 3, 2024

    Steve,

    Thanks for an interesting series concerning the use of capital punishment. In most of your well presented videos, you gave details of the length of drop selected by the executioner to impart death in your narrative. I’ve noticed that this was absent in this video and few others.

    Thanks again for the informative videos.

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    @Gruntos July 3, 2024

    In the film Piepoint he hung his mate. Is this true If so can you do something about it please ?

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    @gregscally5119 July 3, 2024

    This is a simple and straightforward case of domestic violence. The father/husband had been terrorising his wife and daughters for some years. Nowadays, when these domestic violence killers destroy their families they usually also then shoot themselves. Of course, in the mid 1920s domestic violence did not exist did it?

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    @stewartmckeand6099 July 3, 2024

    Loc Im in.

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