Despite being almost a century ago, the name Nurse Waddingham is still remembered in Nottingham. Convicted of murder in 1936, she was the last person to be hanged at Winson Green Prison and there were 10.000 protesters outside the prison.
Local Author Reviews The Case
Local author Jacques Morrell has discussed the case in his true-crime podcast.. He tells us:
Mahatma Gandhi said that ‘the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members’. In this case, the murders of a mother and daughter in Nottingham represent a damning indictment of British society in the 1930s. Nursing homes were unregulated at the time, doctors played god, and their decisions went unchallenged. It was a toxic soup that nourished the likes of Dorothea Waddingham and Ronald Sullivan.
Psycho Killer – The Podcast paints this picture of the case as they go in search of the answers.
Miscarriage Of Justice?
Dorothea Waddingham was a wicked woman. She poisoned an elderly widow and her disabled daughter for money. A jury found the Nottingham care-home owner guilty and she was hanged for murder. That was in 1936. But why was this mother sent to the gallows, leaving five young children to fend for themselves? Was the death penalty necessary? Why wasn’t her sentence commuted to life imprisonment? And does the backstory cast doubt on the safety of Dorothea Waddingham’s conviction?
Listen to the podcast to make your mind up.
https://psycho-killer.co/psycho-killer-true-crime-podcast
