Author: vaughanmason

Today’s the day Nancy Maidstone is going to hang.In her time, she’s been a wartime evacuee, land-girl, slaughterhouse worker, supermarket assistant, Master Butcher and defendant accused of first degree murder. Now she’s a prisoner condemned to death. A first time for everything.The case has made all the front pages. Speculation dominates every conversation from bar to barbershop to bakery. Why … to bakery. Why did she do it? How did she do it? Did she actually do it at all? Her physical appearance and demeanour in court has sparked the British public’s imagination, so everyone has an opinion on Nancy…