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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
First Aired
Oct 30, 1994
Last Aired
Feb 27, 1994
Seasons
1
Episodes
4
Network
ITV1
Studio
LWT
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Cast
Full credits →P
Peter Vaughan
Dr. Hinks
B
Bernard Hepton
D
Don Henderson
L
Lesley Sharp
Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies
D
Diana Quick
Marion Glassford-Gale
M
Michael Kitchen
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
D
David Thewlis
Oswald Martin
S
Sarah Miles
Catherine Armstrong
R
Robert Stephens
Henry Vaughan
R
Roger Lloyd Pack
Phillips
P
Patrick Godfrey
Griffiths
P
Paul Brooke
Arthur
A
Amanda Walker
Bessie
