Norman Thorne

Norman Thorne (ca 1900 – 22 April 1925) was an English chicken farmer and murderer. He murdered his mistress Elsie Cameron on 5 December 1924 and dismembered the body.

He was tried at Lewes Assizes on 11 March 1925, before Mr Justice Findlay. The prosecution was led by Sir Henry Curtis Bennett and the defence by J. D. Cassels. The defence claimed that Elsie had hanged herself and that he had concealed the death out of panic. The evidence of Home Office pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury was that she had been beaten to death.

He was hanged on 22 April 1925.

References

• Helena Normanton, ed. The Trial of Norman Thorne. Geoffrey Bles. 
• Frederick Porter Wensley (2005). Forty Years of Scotland Yard: A Record of Lifetime's Service in the Criminal Investigation Department (reprint ed.). Kessinger Publishing. pp. 288–291. ISBN 1417989971. 

External links

• The Chicken Run Murder What's on in Crowborough

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Name	Thorne, Norman
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Short description	Murderer
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Date of death	1925
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