Strange Stories: Belmont Road, Southampton murder.

Belmont road Southampton. Henry Novak was murdered outside number 68 Belmont Road during May 2026. 66 years before this date, there was another murder at 11 Belmont Road. At that time, the UK was a different country, this is the story.

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Oh Strange Stories UK here again. Well, after the Henry Novak murder, I did some digging and came across another murder in the same road, albeit 67 years earlier, in 1959. Britain was an entirely different country back then, so I thought it may be of interest to tell of the earlier story. Well, to set the scene, in the UK in January 1959, Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister, telling the public they'd never had it so good, as a period of cautious prosperity was being enjoyed after years of war and hardships for many. Television was expanding on the 15th of January 1959, the same day as the events explained in this podcast took place. Tyne Tees television began broadcasting to the northeast of England. ITV. Harold Macmillan was interviewed live on its opening night. This was part of the wider spread of commercial television after the launch of ITV in the mid-1950s. Popular music was in its rock and roll and light pop phase. Conway Twitty's It's Only Make Believe was number one for the first three weeks of 1959. Then Jane Morgan's The Day the Rains Came became the number one. Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, and Tommy Steele were all in the charts. To the background of Cold War, Britain was going through the process of decolonisation. Cuba was also in the news globally as Fidel Castro's revolution succeeded at the start of 1959. At the cinema, the popular films were Room at the Top and Disney Sleeping Beauty. These were both on general release. Also popular were the Hammer Horror films and the carry-on films. At the bookshop, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Dr. Jivago by Pasternak, Boris Pasternak, and Exodus by Leon Juris were top of the book charts. Well, Belmont Road was where Henry Novak was killed in 2026, and this is where the story is set for this podcast. Well Belmont was built during the Victorian period, providing good quality housing for the middle classes in an area that had once been a mix of countryside and small farms. It had been an avenue with trees and still is. Some of the houses were grand with good sized gardens and housed the successful business owners and professional people of Southampton. It was a well-to-do area, but after World War II the area became more urban, and many of the houses became houses of multiple occupation. The gardens had become overgrown, and swimming pools and summer houses were hidden now in bramble bushes, as they were no longer maintained. This story focuses on number eleven Belmont Road, Southampton. John Gerard Finn was a painter's assistant, and he had moved into the house during 1955. He occupied a room upstairs and a room downstairs. Eleven Belmont Road was a or is a semi-detached eight bedroom house which is still standing today. Mr Barrett had a large room upstairs and a large room downstairs, and later a mister and misses Tatum would have a couple of rooms upstairs. Captain Charles Frederick Barrett lived at the house. I think it was his house. He had the two front rooms and one on the ground floor, one on the first floor. Finn played Finn paid rent to Captain Barrett. He usually paid on a Saturday morning, otherwise he paid on a Friday. Barrett would take out his wallet and put the rent money in it. So Mr Barrett always had a wallet with money in. Finn said that he knew Captain Barrett very well. He was a man of regular habits and was very methodical. It was Barrett's custom to lock the house between ten PM and ten thirty PM. The front door was secured by a normal lock, but was not bolted. The rear kitchen door was bolted. The middle rear door leading to the conservatory was also closed but not locked, and the outside conservatory was locked. So the house was all locked up. Water was turned off in the hall and in the kitchen. The windows in Barrett's front downstairs room were not normally opened except for a ventilating window which was open about two inches. So the house was secure. A mister and misses Tatum had come to eleven Belmont Road about three weeks before Christmas, nineteen fifty eight. While they were living there they had the run of the house generally. Finn and the Tatums had been together in Captain Barrett's room on occasions over the Christmas period. Finn believed that Tatum had left the house altogether on the tenth of january nineteen fifty nine. I think he left his wife and young child. Tatum knew that Finn was working on a night shift because Finn had told him that he was working nights that week. On the evening of Thursday, the fifteenth of january nineteen fifty nine, Finn, or John Finn, left eleven Belmont Road for work. He returned the next morning between seven thirty and seven thirty five, entering by the rear Westridge Road entrance, Westridge was a road running parallel with Belmont Road. Finn immediately noticed that the conservatory window and doors were open, which was unusual. Inside the house he heard a strange snoring or choking noise, and he also found his own living room door open. Finn went upstairs to Captain Charles Frederick Barrett's room. The door was wide open. The main light was off, but the bedside lamp was on. Barrett was lying near the foot of the bed, badly injured and covered in blood, making a choking noise. Finn went to Mrs. Tatum's room and spoke to her, and then he left the house and telephoned the police. So quite strange that Finn heard the choking noise, but Mrs. Tatum didn't. Anyhow, police constable Anthony John Bushrod arrived at 7 fifty two AM. He found Barrett lying face down beside the bed in a pool of blood, wearing only a shirt. Barrett was still alive, just. PC Bushrod turned him on his side, put pillows under his head, and wrapped bed clothes around him. He noticed blood on the bed near the pillow and a broken part of a urinal bottle on the bed, with the rest of the bottle was on the bedside table. He also saw weapons displayed on the hall wall, including swords and spears, and noticed that one appeared to be missing. Detective Sergeant Harry Ansell arrived at about eight twenty AM. By then Barrett had been taken to hospital. Ansill saw the bloodstained bedroom, the disarranged bed, the drawn Venetian blinds, and the lamp still burning. He also found drawers open in the downside downstairs front room and confirmed that the conservatory windows and doors were open. He then went to the Royal South Hans Hospital in near Southampton town centre and contacted Detective Inspector Masters. At the hospital, Barrett was unconscious and had lost a great deal of blood. He had a Y-shaped wound above his right forehead with a depressed skull fracture and a wound behind the right ear, a lacerated right ear, bruising around the right eye, and he was bleeding from the ear and nostrils. He was given a blood transfusion and briefly improved, but remained unconscious. But he died at 3 45 PM on the sixteenth of january nineteen fifty nine. Jackson said that the injuries had certainly been inflicted within the previous twelve hours. nine thirty on the Friday the sixteenth. Detective Inspector Robert Masters went to eleven Belmont Road with PC Bushrod and DS Ansill. They examined the outside of the house. Without going into the report, they found no evidence that the house had been broken into. In the front ground floor room, which was Barrett's room, they found the door open, the Venetian blinds down, side curtains drawn, and the centre the top of the centre window was open by two or three inches. A bureau stood behind the door. Its drawers were open and its desktop was raised, but apart from that there was no general signs of a disturbance. In the hall the master saw weapons displayed on the wall. A faded mark and a gap showed that a long narrow object had been hanging there. There were two pieces of leather fong remaining on hooks, so suggesting something had been removed. They were soon to discover it was a knobkerry, which was a sort of Zulu warrior's club. Marcus then went upstairs to the front bedroom, Barrett's room. The door was open, with the key inside of the lock. The in it was inside the room. The Venetian blinds were down, table lamp beside the bed was lit. Room was heavily bloodstained. Bedclothes were partially screwed up on the bed and partly hanging over the side of the bed. An eider down and dressing gown lay on the floor. Near a foot of the bed were two bloodstained pillows, a bloodstained chair seat, and a large pool of blood. There was general bloodstaining in the room. On the bedside table was the broken bloodstained urine bottle. This seemed to have been broken in a struggle after other pieces of the bottle were found in the bed and under the bed. I understand a urine bottle is something which was used at the time, maybe still is, for people that need to urinate at night without going to the bathroom. Also on the table were a gold watch, two gold rings and a leather purse. The furniture drawers in the bedroom did not appear to have been disturbed. A bloodstained electric fire stood near the fireplace, and a small lock safe was in the far left hand corner. Detective Constable Ballard photographed the scene. During the examination, Masters removed the bed and bedding, and under the bed he found a knob carry. His head was near the edge of the bed by the fireplace. The shaft stretched almost to the centre of the bed and rested against an empty suitcase. It was heavily stained with what appeared to be blood, and the shaft of the knob carry was fractured. Detective Constable Ballard took photographs of the scene and then went to the mortuary at the Royal South House Hospital, where he photographed the hedge injuries of Captain Barrett. But for some reason these photographs were not in the police file. Obviously removed at some time. On the Friday afternoon, the police asked Finn to come with them to Captain Barrett's rooms to see if there was anything unusual about them. Finn said that the three drawers of the desk were open, which was odd. Finn said that Barrett carried money in his wallet, and although there was a safe although there was a safe in the room, Finn did not know where the keys were to the safe, and had never seen the safe open. Finn made other observations to the police and explained Barrett's normal habits. On Tuesday the twentieth of January, the police prepared a detailed plan of the house and gardens on a scale of ten feet to one inch, and these plans were included in the police records. two hundred forty five, Friday the sixteenth of January, Detective Inspector Masters, Detective Sergeant Ansell, and Detective Sergeant O'Sullivan saw Michael George Tatum in Fremantle Road. Ansell told Tatum that they were investigating the serious injuries inflicted on Captain Barrett at eleven Belmont Road and asked him to come to headquarters. Tatum said he knew nothing about it, but agreed to go. At the police headquarters, Tatum emptied his pockets. He had a wallet containing seven pounds and one pound notes, and a key case with two keys and a single key. He said one key was for the Belmont Road address, and the other was his Diggs key. As said he'd left his wife, but he still had a key for his wife's rooms at Belmont Road. When asked about the previous evening, Tatum said that be with two other men, one called Trevor and another called Don at the Oak Public House at the bottom of Cambridge Road, and he was there from about eight PM until nine forty five PM. He said then he went to another public house at the other end of Cambridge Road, and he stayed there until closing time. Then he met a man called Derrick and went back to Derrick's flat until about quarter to one the next morning. Tatum's account of Derrick was vague. He said that he'd never met him before, but they went to Derrick's house by car, and that the house was somewhere off the Portswood Road. He was uncertain about whether Derrick was married and had a family, but he lived in lodgings and owned a zodiac car. He didn't know if anybody in the pub knew him. Sergeant O'Sullivan then asked Tatum about the seven pounds he had, since Tatum was understood not to be working. Tatum said Derrick had given him eight pounds the previous night, and seven pounds was what remained after he'd spent some of it. When Mars questioned him further, Tatum said Derrick had given the money for future promises, and he described Derrick as being queer homosexual. He claimed that he had not agreed to do anything, but he had tricked Derrick by saying he would see him again on Sunday. When asked if he'd stolen the money, Tatum denied it, saying Derrick had given it to him, but he had sort of been rolled by deceiving him. I would assume that the police were very suspicious of Tatum and thought that he was a thorough devious character. At five PM on the sixteenth of January, Detective Inspector Mars went with Joan Mayware to the Royal South Hance Hospital, where she identified Charles Frederick Barrett's body as that of her father. She said Barrett was aged eighty five years old, and he lived at eleven Belmont Road, Portswood. He had no relatives living with him. She said she visited him regularly, and he'd been in good health for his age. Ware had lived Ware herself had lived at Eleven Belmont Road from nineteen forty five to nineteen fifty. She said her father collected African curios, including swords which were displayed on the wall just in front of the front door. The knob carry belonged to him, and had been one of the items hanging there. She had last seen it just after Christmas, nineteen fifty eight. At seven PM the same day, Marcus went to eleven Belmont Road with Joan Ware and Dennis Barrett, who I assume was a relative of Captain Barrett. Ware entered the front room upstairs and saw her father's gold watch and other items on the bedside table. She said Barrett usually emptied his pockets on the bedside table at night and placed his clothes on the chair next to the bed. She also said that he kept money in the safe and the rest in his wallet. She identified her father's wallet. Marcus took the gold watch and two rings and a purse from the bedside table and handed them to Dennis Barrett. He then searched for the safe key. He found it in a small drawer near the window, and he opened the safe, and the safe contained sixty pound in cash and documents which he gave to mister Barrett Dennis Barrett. At nine PM on the sixteenth of January, Detective Inspector Masters questioned Michael George Tatum again about his movements the previous night. Tatum repeated his early account that he left Derrick's house at about twelve thirty, quarter to one. Derrick had driven him back to the end of Cambridge Road. He described Derrick as about six feet tall, fair haired, in his thirties, wearing a brown suit, and he used to wear string gloves whilst driving. He also said that he had been with Trevor and Don in the public bar of the Oak, and he later met Derrick in another public house. The three policemen, Masters and Sylan O'Sullivan, with Tatum then drove around Southampton to test the story. Tatum first directed them to the north end of Cambridge Road and said that the pub he meant had an oak tree on the sign. So they went to the Royal Oak in Lodge Road. The licensee, Reginald Cole, said Tatum had not been in the public bar the previous night. But Cole's wife Gladys said that he had been there, but she could not remember the time. Tatum then tried to identify the second public house where he had met Derrick. He pointed out the wagoner's arms. Mrs. Brooking, the licensee's wife, said that he had not been there, and that a man named Mitchell also said Tatum had not been in the public bar. Tatum insisted that he had been there. They also checked the red line, but the licensee Edmund Dollary said Tatum had not been there either. Tatum then tried to show the road where Derrick supposedly lived. Somewhere off the swathing high street, but they could not identify it. Back at police headquarters, Marcus told Tatum it was clear that he had not been telling the truth. He pointed out that most of the people questioned had contradicted him, and his story about Derrick was very vague. Derrick had supposedly given him eight pound for no clear reason, and that whoever entered eleven Belmont Road probably had a key because there was no sign of a forced entry. Tatum had a key to the Belmont Road in his possession. Tatum then admitted he had been wasting police time, and said he would tell the truth. He claimed that he had been shielding Trevor and Don. He said he met them earlier, gone with them to the Warren's pub, Skullard's pub, and the Bargate pub, and then returned to their house, where they talked with Don's parents until about twelve thirty AM. He then altered the Derrick story, saying that he saw Derrick outside the Gordon Arms, standing by his car relieving himself. He claimed Derrick took him home, talked with him, gave him eight pounds, and then later drove him back. Tatum gave the names and address of Trevor and Don, identifying Don as Don Russell, who lived almost opposite the Golden the Gordon Arms in Portswood Road. Masters and Ansel went to ninety six Portswood Road to speak to Trevor Toghill and Donald Russell. When they returned, Masters cautioned Tatum and told him he was not satisfied with his account, and Tatum was but going to be detained at police headquarters while further inquiries were made. Trevor Graham Toghill later gave an account of the evening. He said he had met a man called Mike in the Gordon Arms at around the 5th of January and seen him nearly every night afterwards. Tatum claimed to have been single and in the Australian Navy. On the 15th of January after 6 PM, Tatum, Toghill and Donald Russell went out together. They visited the Gordon Arms, the Belmont Hotel, and then went into town to the Queen's Public House. The Bargate Public House, Gatty's Public House, and Scullard's public house. Tokill said they did not go to the Royal Oak, the Wagoner's Arms or the Red Lion. On the bus into town, Tatum said he was broke and borrowed a pound from Russell, promising to repay it the next day. The three later returned to Gordon Arms for a final beer and left at closing time at around ten thirty five. Tatum went back with them and left Russell's home at about eleven thirty five. Toghill said Tatum did not appear to be drunk. All three of them were sober. Difficult to believe after visiting so many pubs, but there we are, they'd sobered up. He remembered Tatum wearing a scarf, a dark overcoat, and having kid gloves with him. The evidence from Trevor Toghill and Donald Russell confirmed that Michael Tatum had been with them for most of the evening of Thursday the fifteenth of January. They said he arrived at ninety six Portswood Road at about 6.30 PM. The three men went drinking together at the public houses already mentioned. Tatum said he was broke, borrowed a pound from Russell, promising to repay it the next day. And Tatum left their company at about 11.35, 1140. Both Toghill and Russell said that Tatum was sober. The next morning, Friday the 16th of January, Tatum returned to 96 Ports Road at about 10.20 AM and repaid Russell the pound that he owed him. Toghill then went with him to the Gordon Arms. Tatum said he had obtained the money at the docks that morning and complained about the exchange rate. Not sure what that means. He said he took out well that he said that Tatum took out a wallet similar to the wallet owned by Captain Barrett, and it contained pound notes, and he said after paying the sparks and repaying Don, he would only have about seven pound left. Later at the Belmont Hotel, Tatum asked Tokill if he could borrow his brown suit, but he gave no reason. Neither Toghill nor Russell knew anybody called Terry Thatcher, and Tatum had not mentioned such a person to them. Toghill later identified the leather gloves, the kid gloves, as probably Tatum's. Terry Thatcher will be a name that we'll come across shortly. On Saturday the seventeenth of January, Detective Inspector Masters questioned Tatum again. Masters told him that Captain Barrett had died. Tatum reacted by saying Oh, that's different. Let me think. Then he said he would tell the truth. He claimed that after leaving Trevor and Don he'd met a man that he knew. He told this man he had not seen his wife since the previous Saturday, and the man suggested that they go to Belmont Road to see her. Tatum said they entered eleven Belmont Road through the front door using Tatum's key. According to Tatum's statement, he and the other man first searched Barrett's room downstairs. That's the front room. But they found nothing of value. They then went upstairs. Tatum said he heard the other man take a stick from the wall. In Barrett's bedroom they approached the bed in the dark. Tatum felt on a bedside table and picked up Barrett's wallet. And Barrett then moved or half sat up. Taton said he was frightened and moved towards the door. He claimed that the other man, the unnamed man, struck Barrett with a stick. Taton said he did not see the blow but heard it land. Taton said they then ran downstairs and escaped through the back entrance through the conservatory, and they went down Westridge Road. They ran towards the waste ground, but then slowed to a walk. Tatum opened the wallet, they divided the notes by hand, and pushed the wallet into a hedge. He said that they then walked around Portswood Road discussing what had happened. The other man said he did not think he hit Barrett very hard. In the statement, Tatum admitted that he needed the money badly and intended to give some to his mother and his wife. He said that the incident had been all his fault, and that if he had not met with the other man, the other man would not have been involved. He refused to give the man's name or address, saying that the man had helped him in Southampton and he wasn't going to turn him in. The statement was taken at police headquarters between 5 50 and 6 30 PM on the seventeenth of January, and it was signed by Tatum. Afterwards Marcus asked Tatum to show where he had hidden Barrett's wallet. Tatum directed Marcus and Sergeant O'Sullivan to spring crescent between Lawn Road and Portswood Road and pointed to a hedge. They searched for it in the dark, but they could not find the wallet. Back at police headquarters, Marcus again asked about the other man, but Tatum still refused to identify him. So Sergeant Ansl charged Tatum. After being cautioned, Tatum made no reply. Sunday, the eighteenth of January, Detective Inspector Marcus went to Spring Crescent and found Barrett's wallet in the hedge of number twelve, about four feet from the ground. The wallet contained a receipt for about two hundred and f contained a receipt for two hundred and fifty pounds worth of premium bonds and a book of postage stamps. When showed the wallet, Tatum identified it as the one that he had taken. Later that day, Tatum asked the Seamasters and named the alleged second man as Terry Thatcher. He said that Thatcher lived somewhere down St. Mary's Road in Southampton, though he did not know the number and he'd never been there. Tatum claimed that he'd first met Thatcher at the railway hotel or the railway arms and Millbrook Road about a week after arriving in Southampton, and had seen him since, often, usually around the labour exchange while looking for work. He described Thatcher as about five ten, dark haired, fairly well built, aged about twenty one twenty two, well dressed, and he had a Southampton accent. Tatum said Thatcher had sometimes given him money and bought him drinks, and once had taken him to a place called the Morning Horse. Police made inquiries about Terry Thatcher at the Ministry of Labour, the National Assistance Board, all the houses in St. Mary's Road, and they contacted every Thatcher family listed in the Southampton Street Directory. But no trace of Terry Thatcher was found. On the twenty eighth of January, Mars told Tatum this and asked if he could give more information. Tatum said he could not. Under cross examination, Marcus said local inquiries had been exhausted and inquiries had also been directed in London, although he was not aware of any inquiries having been made at the shipping federation. I'm supposing that Terry Thatcher may have uh may have been a sailor. Anyhow, Detective Sergeant Ansell later used the Yale key found in Tatum's possession to open the front door of eleven Belmont Road. He also went to Tatum's address at thirty six Cambridge Road and seized clothing from the bedroom, grey overcoat, blue jacket, pair of gloves. Tatum identified them as his. Ansell also took possession of Tatum's trousers, and also the shoes he was wearing. Richard Anthony Goodbody carried out the postmortem on Charles Barrett on the 17th of January. He found severe head injuries, a jagged wound on the right forehead, wounds and bruising around the right side of the head and ear, extensive skull fractures, bleeding around the brain, and serious brain contusions. There were also bruises on both hands and a scratch on the left buttock. Goodbody said the injuries were caused by blunt instrument and required at least three blows. He also said that if Barrett had been sitting up in bed and the attacker had been near the bedside table, the injuries were likely to have been inflicted by a left-handed man. And for your information, Tatum was left-handed. Forensic tests were carried out by Eric Durmant Sweet at the Metropolitan Police Labs. He examined the knob carry, Barrett's hair sample, Tatum's clothing, and the table lamp that was next to Barrett's bed. The knobcare was bloodstained and broken in two places, but hairs similar to Barrett's were caught in the broken fibers. Sweet said that a hard blow to the head and another solid object could have caused the damage to the weapon and explained the trapped hairs in the knobkerry. No blood was found on Tatum's overcoat, jacket, trousers or shoes, but his gloves showed no obvious blood staining, but microscopic examination found tiny flakes of dried blood on both gloves. Between the 20th and 30th of January, police continued examining 11 Belmont Road. They checked the lighting in Barrett's upstairs front room after dark with the Venetian blinds down. They found that streetlights gave enough light to see large objects and move around the room, although not enough to see small details. Medical reports on Michael George Tatum were prepared before his trial at Hampshire Assizes in March 1959. Tatum was age twenty four. The reports were based on prison observations, interviews, psychological testing, medical examinations, and so on. Tatum had been under close observation from the nineteenth of January to the seventeenth of February, first in a hospital room, then in a hospital association ward. He'd been interviewed several times, he'd been seen almost daily, and staff reports on his behaviour had been reviewed. Psychological tests had been carried out. An EEG examination at St. James's Hospital Portsmouth gave normal results, with no epileptic disturbance in his brain. The reports gave Tatum's background. His father had died of cerebral thrombosis in 1957, age sixty. His mother was still alive. He was the younger of two children, had an older married sister. There was no known history of epilepsy, alcoholism or mental illness. Tatum had married on the thirtieth of march nineteen fifty-seven and had a twelve month year old daughter. He and his wife had separated after a quarrel about a week before the alleged offence, after which he moved into lodgings nearby Cambridge Road. His medical history showed no history of fits or serious head injuries, mental illness or venereal disease. Tatum had received a grammar school education after winning a scholarship to Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea, at the age of ten. He left school at sixteen. He worked for first as a motor mechanic for the Austin Motor Car Company, then as a cinema projectionist in London. In 1956 he briefly became a shop assistant, but then returned to cinema work. His last London job was a night porter and healing in September 1958. After a period of unemployment, he and his wife moved to Southampton. There he obtained work with the Firestone Tire Company, but said or he said he was not allowed to continue after failing a medical examination, and he was unemployed during the week before the alleged offence. That's the murder of Captain Barrett, of course. Tatum said that he had boxing as one of his hobbies. He denied killing anybody. He admitted that he'd been stealing from an old man and that his companion had struck the old man. It certainly wasn't him. The main report concluded that Tatum had behaved normally throughout his remand period. He was described as an intelligent, polite, pleasant, cooperative, socially normal, without signs of aggressiveness, irritability or mental abnormality. The doctor found no reason to think that at the time of the offence Tatum had been suffering from a disease of the mind, a defect of reason or any other condition, substantially impairing his responsibility. He was judged to be of sound mind, fit to plead and fit to stand trial. Two further reports on Tatum reached the same conclusions. Tatum said he had drunk heavily on the night in question, more than usual. He had mixed whiskey and beer. But the doctors found that this had not caused any serious defect of memory, since Tatum could still give a reasonable account of his movements on that night. The St. John's report said Tatum had answered questions relevantly, although sometimes contradictorily. General knowledge was good, but he made mistakes in fairly simple and mental arithmetic. He showed little emotional reaction and remained calm even during the even when the danger of his position was discussed with him. The doctor thought his work record may suggest some instability, possibly some kind of psychopathic constitution, but he found no evidence of psychiatric disease or any other supporting any diminished responsibility. At the court case at the Hance Winter Hampshire Winter Asises in 1959, Michael George Tatum was case number 53, and he was charged with murdering Charles Frederick Barrett at eleven Belmont Road, Southampton on the 15th or 16th of January 1959, during or in the furtherance of theft. The listed witnesses included police officers, medical witnesses, forensic experts, relatives of Barrett, residents or acquaintances. Acquaintances are connected with Tatum and the public house witnesses. Michael George Tatum was convicted of murder, the murder of Captain Charles Barrett during April 1959, and he was sentenced to death. An appeal was dismissed by the Court of Criminal Appeal on the 27th of April 1959 while Tatum was being held in Winchester Prison. The London Gazette published the official inquest notice after execution, stating that Michael George Tatum, age 24, a cinema projectionist, had been convicted of murdering Charles Frederick Barrett, and that the judgment of death was duly executed at Her Majesty's Prison Winchester on the 14th of May 1959. Well, so ends that podcast. I'd like to thank anybody listening. Until next time, I'll say goodbye.