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Percy Charles ANDERSON
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

    
 
 
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: At his trial Anderson claimed that he could remember nothing of the killing
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: November 25, 1934
Date of arrest: Same day
Date of birth: 1913
Victim profile: Edith Constance Drew-Bear, 21
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: East Brighton, United Kingdom
Status: Executed by hanging at Wandsworth Prison on April 16, 1935
 
 
 
 
 
 

Edith Constance Drew-Bear was a 21-year-old cinema usher. Her body was discovered floating in a water tank on the East Brighton Golf Course on 25th November 1934. Her body had five .22 bullets in it but the cause of death was strangulation.

Percy Charles Anderson was arrested and charged with her murder. He was 21-years-old and, when picked up, was carrying zinc chloride and ammonia chloride. When his room was examined bullets, the same as those recovered from Edith's body, were found.

At his trial Anderson claimed that he could remember nothing of the killing, although he admitted quarelling with the girl, and put forward a defense of insanity. It failed and he was convicted. He was hanged at Wandsworth Prison on 16th April 1935.

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