They Ate Dinner Over His Body: The Bermondsey Horror of 1849
On a quiet August night in 1849, a man sat down to dinner in a Bermondsey kitchen. Moments later he was shot in the head, beaten with a crowbar, and buried under the flagstones—while his killers calmly ate their meal above him.
Weeks later a husband and wife stood side by side on the gallows at Horsemonger Lane Gaol, the first married couple hanged together in England for nearly 150 years. Charles Dickens watched from the crowd of 30,000.
Host Alexander Lawson unravels the deadly love triangle, the quicklime, the stolen railway shares, and the murder that shocked Victorian London.
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