Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welshman hanged in the United Kingdom in 1950 for the murder of his infant daughter at 10 Rillington Place, London. An official inquiry conducted 16 years after Evans's hanging determined that his daughter had in fact been killed by his co-tenant, serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie, and Evans was subsequently recommended and granted a posthumous pardon. There has been considera...
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Timothy John Evans (20 November 1924 – 9 March 1950) was a Welshman hanged in the United Kingdom in 1950 for the murder of his infant daughter at 10 Rillington Place, London. An official inquiry conducted 16 years after Evans's hanging determined that his daughter had in fact been killed by his co-tenant, serial killer John Reginald Halliday Christie, and Evans was subsequently recommended and granted a posthumous pardon. There has been considerable debate about whether Evans was also responsible for the murder of his wife, on which he was not tried but whose death was considered by the same inquiry "more probable than not" to have been at the hands of Evans. Many people have argued that Christie murdered her as well and that Evans was innocent of both crimes with which he was charged, while others have argued against this.
The case played a large part in the abolition of capital punishment in Britain, and is considered a miscarriage of justice.
Evans was a native of Merthyr Tydfil in...
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