Author: Xanthe Hall

  • I is for Irene – The wife that got away

    I is for Irene – The wife that got away

    Len’s first wife, Irene, married him during his war service. But she met someone else and they divorced when he returned.

  • G is for Germany

    G is for Germany

    Germany was still occupied when I came to West Berlin, twenty-five years after Len went back to England and killed Libeth. But did he go back with Dinah?

  • F is for Femicide

    F is for Femicide

    Was the killing of Lisbeth femicide? The media gave the impression that Len was a devoted father who acted under provocation.

  • D is for Dinah

    D is for Dinah

    My Aunt Dinah married Uncle Len twice. Why did she divorce him? Did she find out what he had done and then later forgave him?

  • C is for Care of the Children

    C is for Care of the Children

    Len had six children and wanted to keep them together. He had promised to do so to his dying wife. But by his action, the opposite happened.

  • B is for Berkshire, Basingstoke, Burnley

    B is for Berkshire, Basingstoke, Burnley

    Uncle Len, Wife-Killer, lived in many places, but three stand out. Berkshire, Basingstoke and Burnley.

  • A is for Ashworth

    A is for Ashworth

    Introduction to the series “Uncle Len – Wife-Killer, in which Samuel Leonard Thomas Ashworth kills his 3rd wife and then marries my Aunt.

  • Maria Joy, 1843-1894

    Paternal 2nd great-Grandmother Maria was born in 1843 in Tottenham, Middlesex, to William and Maria, their first child. William was from Sandgate, a village near Folkestone, Kent, Maria was a Londoner. He was working as a gardener in Tottenham when they married and Maria had been working in Gray’s Inn as a dressmaker. It was…

  • The Pain Clinic

    It was snowing, they were late. The cropped, blonde nurse glared at her as her husband fled, keen to escape the clutches of the clinic which radiated an air of military strictness. This was the Pain Clinic. Where everyone is in pain, except – maybe the staff. She knew better than to explain to the…

  • Remembering Nellie

    Remembering Nellie

    Honouring my great-grandmother Nellie Sinclair, nurse.