Why not research the rich heritage of Babbacombe? This true story one of the most famous events in Devon and even the UK.
On Saturday 15th November 1884, Emma Ann Whitehead Keyse was murdered in Babbacombe and found hacked to death in her burnt out cottage. The culprit, who denied it to his death bed, was purportedly, her employee John Henry George Lee. This story is famous for failed attempts to hang him and his unusual life before, during and after his life sentence in prison.
John Lee was from...