#103 - The Beating of Baby Richard (Soho child killer)

On Tuesday 4th October 1853, in a squalid first-floor lodging at 6 Little Dean Street, the beating of baby Richard began… and ten days later, he would be dead. Described as a ‘bastard’ child, his widowed mother struggled against insurmountable odds in the hope that he would survive, only those she was forced to trust with his care, became his killers.

• ate: Tuesday 4th to Friday 14th October 1853
• Location: 6 Little Dean Street, now called Bourchier Street, W1
• Victims: 1 (Richard Higgs, possibly Ryall or Banks)
• Culprits: 1 (Joseph Birch and Caroline Nash)

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