Did This Killer Deserve To Be Hanged? | Crime Up Close

In the last programme of the current series of MURDER MOST FOUL, Jack Shepherd looks into the 1937 killings of Wilhelmina Davis and her niece Monica Rowe who were savagely attacked by Wilhelmina's mentally disturbed husband. Mr Philip Davis was later sentenced to death. But would a modern jury have looked differently upon his case and delivered a verdict of guilty but insane? Subscribe to Crime Up Close: https://bit.ly/CrimeUpClose This film was first broadcast: 13 Feb 2004 Watch More Documentaries True Lives - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Up Close - youtube.com/@UpCloseITVS Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Taste - https://bit.ly/3OZoDcV Blueprint - https://bit.ly/3ZK5UdD Crime Up Close features the very best True Crime, Prison and Policing documentaries from the ITV Studios Archive. Take an UP CLOSE look at some of the world’s most infamous serial killers, unsolved cases and highest security prisons. Content distributed by ITV Studios.