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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
Cast
Peter Vaughan
as Dr. Hinks
Bernard Hepton
as
Don Henderson
as
Lesley Sharp
as Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies
Diana Quick
as Marion Glassford-Gale
Michael Kitchen
as Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong
David Thewlis
as Oswald Martin
Sarah Miles
as Catherine Armstrong
Robert Stephens
as Henry Vaughan
Roger Lloyd Pack
as Phillips
Patrick Godfrey
as Griffiths
Paul Brooke
as Arthur
Amanda Walker
as Bessie
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