John Hoskins

A 1967 case recounts how Terence Bougall, a repeat boat thief with a history of yacht-related offences, was convicted after stealing a £17,000 vessel named Skelgoose and abandoning it in the Lymington River, leaving fingerprints that led to his arrest. Despite his claims of innocence and an alibi supported by his mother, jurors found him guilty, and Mr Justice Donaldson sentenced him to three years in prison, noting Bougall’s disregard for others’ property. The hearing also revealed his prior thefts of high‑value yachts in 1964 and 1965.

Sarah Huntingford, aged 61, became the last woman publicly executed for murder in Hampshire after being convicted of killing her husband, Thomas. Her claims that two disguised attackers were responsible unraveled under evidence including a bloodstained billhook and blood on her dress. Jury members immediately found her guilty, and she was executed in Winchester in 1819, after which her body was taken for dissection.