Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: manslaughter
Date Of Sentence: 3 May 1921 (for 7 years)
End Of Full Sentence: 3 May 1928
Place: Fulham Road, Chelsea
Source: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Douglas Barrington was convicted of the manslaughter of Edwin Payne.
He shot him at the corner of Fulham Road and Park Walk with a revolver.
He said that he had been endeavouring to escape from a detective who had tried to arrest him when he nearly ran into Edwin Payne and that the revolver that he had drawn from his pocket with the intention of throwing away, went off.
Douglas Barrington had been a young cinema actor.
After the jury found him guilty of manslaughter, the judge said that the evidence before the jury would have, in his judgement, quite satisfied them in coming to the conclusion that Douglas Barrington was guilty of murder, but the didn't complain of their verdict.
see National Archives - CRIM 1/190/4
see Dundee Courier - Tuesday 03 May 1921
see Leicester Evening Mail - Tuesday 03 May 1921
