Killer Nurse Became Only Woman Hanged in City Jail ; She Was the Only Woman to Be Hanged at Birmingham Prison. Details of Murderer Dorothea Waddingham's Case Have Been Made Public for the First Time After the Home Office Lifted a 100-Year Secrecy Order, As Neil Connor Reports

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I t was in April 1936 that Dorothea Waddingham met her fate on the gallows.

The nurse had poisoned an 87-year-old widow and her disabled daughter at a nursing home.

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Killer Nurse Became Only Woman Hanged in City Jail ; She Was the Only Woman to Be Hanged at Birmingham Prison. Details of Murderer Dorothea Waddingham's Case Have Been Made Public for the First Time After the Home Office Lifted a 100-Year Secrecy Order, As Neil Connor Reports

The jury found Waddingham guilty but said she should be sentenced to life. However, the judge and the then Home Secretary ignored the recommendation and sent her to her de...

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