<Li> 12 January 1949: Margaret Allen, aged 43, for killing a 70 - year - old woman in the course of a robbery, the first woman to be hanged in Britain for 12 years . </Li> <Li> 10 August 1949: John George Haigh, the "acid - bath murderer", at Wandsworth . </Li> <Li> 9 March 1950: Timothy Evans at Pentonville for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine at 10 Rillington Place, North West London . He initially claimed to have killed his wife, but later withdrew the claim . A fellow inhabitant at the same address, John Christie, later found to be a sexual serial killer, gave key evidence against Evans . Christie was executed in 1953 for the murder of his own wife . Evans received a posthumous pardon in 1966 . In 2004 the Court of Appeal refused to consider overturning the conviction due to the costs and resources that would be involved . See John Christie (murderer). </Li> <Li> 28 March 1950: George Kelly at Liverpool for murder, but had his conviction quashed posthumously by the Court of Appeal in June 2003 . </Li>

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