events
July 23, 1943
The Rayleigh bath chair murder occurred in Rayleigh, Essex, England.
Rayleigh bath chair murder
The Rayleigh bath chair murder was a 1943 incident of patricide in which a disabled man was killed in Rayleigh, Essex, England. An anti-tank grenade had been rigged to his hooded wheelchair, a conveyance known as a bath chair. The victim, Archibald Brown, was known to be abusive to his family. Eric, 19 at the time, confessed to the murder of his 47-year-old father and claimed such abuse as his motive. The son was declared insane at trial and incarcerated until 1975.
Rayleigh, Essex
Rayleigh is a market town and civil parish in the Rochford District of Essex, England, between Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea, 32 miles (51 km) east of central London. It had a population of 32,150 at the 2011 census.