Title: The Man They Couldn’t Hang – Screenplay Format (Victorian Crime)
Author: C. D. Jackson
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John "Babbacombe" Lee is one of the most notorious murderers in British criminal history! Lee was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his elderly landlady in Babbacombe, Devon in 1884. However, on the morning of 23rd February 1885 the infamous hangman James Berry failed on three consecutive occasions to successfully hang Lee.

Was it incompetence, providence, a practical joke or the rain from the night before which caused the gallows to malfunction? Which ever way, there…