Bernard Walden
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- Gender
- male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Location
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Date of birth
- 1926
- Characteristics
- jealousy
- Victim profile
- Miss Joyce Moran and her boyfriend, Neil Saxton
- Method of murder
- Shooting
- Date(s) of murder
- 1 959
- Years active
- —
- Date of arrest
- —
- Status
-
Executed
Executed by hanging on 14th August 1959
Background
Bernard Walden was a 33-year-old lecturer at Rotherham Technical College. He had been convicted of a homosexual offence in 1949.
Walden later became infatuated with a woman on campus, Miss J Moran, and proposed to her. Miss J Moran already had a boyfriend and resisted Walden's advances.
The offence
Consumed by jealousy, Walden shot dead both Miss J Moran and her boyfriend, N. Saxton.
Trial
In 1959, Walden told the court:
“I am not as other men. I am a cripple and must be armed to put me on fair terms with others... I have an absolute right to kill.”
He was found guilty and sentenced to death.
Sentencing
Walden was diagnosed as suffering from a chronic paranoid disorder.
He was hanged at Armley Jail, Leeds, on 14th August 1959.
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