THE TERRIBLE EXECUTION OF "ROY HARRIS FOR THE BRUTAL MURDER OF HIS WIFE

  Herbert Roy Harris - wife murderer.

Herbert and Eileen Harris were a married couple who had three young children, the youngest just six months old.  He was 24 and she was 22.  They were living with their respective parents in separate houses in Queens Avenue in Huntley Bridge in Flint.  They were trying for a council house so that they could live together.

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At 5.15 pm. on Saturday the 5th of December Eileen had gone to the Plaza cinema on her own.  This angered Harris who went looking for her.  He found her walking along Chester Road in Huntley Bridge and they got into a fight. He hit her repeatedly on the head with a rock. Her body was found the next morning on a railway bridge by Sarah Owen.  Even today this is a fairly isolated area.

The police immediately suspected Harris and this was confirmed by the finding of blood stained clothes at his parent’s home. Harris had tried to escape by travelling to London on the last train of the day and signed into the Regent Palace Hotel using his own name. 

 A sharp eyed receptionist noticed that it was the same name as was being associated with the murder in Flint and called the police.  He was arrested on Sunday the 6th of December and told police that he didn’t know he had killed Eileen until he read about it in the paper, although he admitted to throwing a stone at her.  However, an autopsy revealed ten fractures to her skull and the pathologist concluded that “a man in a frenzy” caused her injuries.

Harris was returned to Wales and came to trial at the Flintshire Assizes at Mold on the 5th of February 1952, before Mr. Justice Oliver.  Given his flight to London and the severity of Eileen’s injuries, it seems odd that the jury should make a recommendation to mercy.  The judge and the Home Office did not share their view.  However, Mr. Justice Oliver described Herbert and Eileen as “two of the very unfortunate people who were unable to get a home of their own.”

There was no appeal and it was announced on Saturday the 23rd that there would be no reprieve.  Harris was duly hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester by Albert Pierrepoint, assisted by Robert Stewart, at 9.00 a.m. on Tuesday the 26th of February 1952.  His body was exhumed from Strangeways and re-interred by his family in Flint in 1966. 

 After the abolition of the death penalty the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins gave permission for families to reclaim bodies of executed killers. There is a bizarre urban myth that Jenkins, whose mother's maiden name was Harris, did this specifically in this case because Harris was a relative of his, but it isn't true.

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