Practically every day of the year is a landmark of some sort in the annals of crime. Here’s where you can find out what happened this week in years gone by...
Stories from the week beginning June 18th.
Horror at Heythrop Park
Otoki Sakabi, a 41-year-old Japanese nanny, took out the infant child she was minding on Tuesday, JUNE 21st, 1921, cut the baby’s throat with a pair of scissors and threw it into a stream in the grounds of Heythrop Park, Chipping Norton.
The scene was witnessed by a farmer, William Allen, working in a nearby field, who ran for help.
Oxford Assizes was told there appeared to be no motive for the crime. Sakabi was found to be insane and sent to Broadmoor.
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