THE BRUTAL EXECUTION OF THOMAS WYRE - FOR THE HORRIBLE MURDER OF HIS SON.
30 year old Thomas Wyre, a labourer at Kingsford farm was hanged at Worcester Gaol on the 18th of July 1888 for the murder of his four year old son whom he had thrown down a well on the 3rd of March 1888. READ MORE: This woman felt severe headache nurse looks closer and runs to the doctor what started out as a bout of headaches Wyre was married and the couple had two children, the family living in one of the two Bird’s Farm Cottages, at Wolverly near Kidderminster in Worcestershire. The marriage was disintegrating and things came to a head on the 3rd of March, when Mrs. Wyre said she was moving out, taking the older child, an eight year old girl, with her and leaving four year old James with Wyre. Wyre told her that would take James to live with his parents, but sadly this was not the case. James’ body, by now seriously decomposed, was discovered in a well at Castle Hill farm, on the 2nd of June 1888. George Lock, who was a tree feller was doing some work on the property and had