Sarah Freeman – “The Shapwick Murders”.
Sarah Freeman – “The Shapwick Murders” . Sarah Dimond had been reportedly born in 1817 to “poor but honest parents”, Charles and Mary Dimond and had received some education at the village school in Shapwick. She left school at the age of 14 and exhibited a vicious temper which caused problems in the family. By 18 she had two illegitimate children and her behaviour had become so bad that the Parish Commissioners forced her to move from the village of Shapwick near Glastonbury in Somerset. She married Henry Freeman and after he died went to live in Bridgwater, Somerset working as a prostitute, before moving to London and eventually, in late 1844, back to Shapwick. Sarah is thought to have administered arsenic to her husband, brother, husband, Henry, illegitimate son, James, and her mother, Mary Dimond, all of whom had died, although she was technically only convicted of poisoning her brother, Charles Dimond, at her one day trial, as in the usual way the Crown only proceeded with the