Poison Panic part 5: Sarah Chesham, Clavering, 1850-1851

Warning: contains spoilers!

Part 5:

Sarah Chesham's husband died in 1850. Although she had been acquitted of murder in 1847, she stood trial again in 1851 for attempting to poison her husband.

Part of a series of short documentary films shot on location in Essex. Read more about the cases in my book, "Poison Panic: arsenic deaths in 1840s Essex" published by Pen & Sword.

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