Murder by Starvation: The gruesome Death of Harriet Staunton
5 min readJan 31, 2022
“Can you tell me,” enquired Mr Louis Staunton of the local postmaster, “whether Forbes Road, Penge, is in the county of Surrey or Kent?”
It was a question that, later, he surely regretted asking, overheard as he was by a relative of his deceased wife, Harriet. Staunton needed to know where her death should be registered. He did not know that he would shortly be…