Before Whicher there was Smith . . . before Road Hill House there was Battle Farm . . . before the heartless slaughter of three year old Francis Saville Kent there was the awful killing of fourteen year old Sarah Watts. Taking place nine years earlier than the Road case, made famous by the best-selling book ‘The Suspicions of Mr Whicher’ and subsequent television adaptation, ‘The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts: A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks’ recounts the shocking details of this 1851 murder on an isolated farm near Frome in Somerset and the incredible events that transpired from it. As the brutal crime gripped the nation, a London Detective – a colleague of Whicher’s – was sent to investigate. The result was three local men, all notorious felons with previous convictions were arrested and charged; but with a huge reward on offer, were they really guilty or just hapless victims of others’ greed? And when they did stand trial, it set in motion a series of riveting events that culminated a decade later in a sensational confession; but was the sanity of this confessor to be questioned? For the first time, this sensational story is told in full-length book form, with the authors having meticulously researched newspaper accounts, court transcripts, prison records and eyewitness accounts: a story that will keep you hooked long after the final page . . .

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