Kisan kiyashi na Peasenhall

Kisan Peasenhall shine kisan da ba a warware shi ba na Rose Harsent a Peasenhall, Suffolk, Ingila, a daren 31 ga Mayu 1902.  Gidan da kisan ya faru ana iya samunsa a tsakiyar ƙauyen, a kusurwar da ke gaba da Shagon Emmett. Kisan gilla ne na gargajiya 'marasa warwarewa', wanda aka aikata kusa da tsakar dare, a lokacin tsawa, kuma tare da sinadaran asiri.

 Tarihi 
Peasenhall ƙauye ne mai nutsuwa a Suffolk . A cikin 1901 mutane da yawa sun yi aiki a Smyth's Seed Drill Works kuma sun halarci Cocin Methodist na Farko a makwabcin Sibton. Jagoran mawaƙa na ɗakin sujada shine William Gardiner kuma membobin mawaƙa sun haɗa da Rose Anne Harsent mai shekaru 22, ma'aikaciyar gida da tsoffin ma'aurata William da Georgiana Crisp suka yi aiki a gidansu, Providence House, a Peasenhall.

Misis Crisp ta halarci Wesleyan Methodist Chapel a Peasenhall, wanda aka fi sani da Doctor's Chapel, kuma ayyukan Harsent sun haɗa da tsaftacewa a can. Alphonso Skinner da Mista Wright sun ga William Gardiner suna shiga ɗakin sujada yayin da Harsent ke gudanar da ayyukanta, kuma jita-jita sun fara yaduwa; waɗannan jita-jita nan da nan sun zo ga matar Gardiner, mai suna Georgiana. Binciken cocin Methodist na farko ya biyo baya, wanda Rev John Guy ya jagoranta, amma babu wani abu da aka kafa. Gardiner ya yi barazanar kai karar mutanen da suka yada jita-jita.

 Kisan kai da bincike 
A safiyar 1 ga Yuni 1902, mahaifinta, William Harsent, ya gano jikin Rose Harsent a cikin kicin a kasan matakala da ke kaiwa ɗakinta a cikin ɗaki. Tana kwance a cikin tafkin jinin kanta, an yanke makogwaro, tare da gashin kanta a kafaɗarta da raunuka. An ƙone tufafinta kuma an ƙone wasu sassan jikinta kamar dai wani ya yi ƙoƙari ya ƙone gawar ta. Ta mutu kusan sa'o'i hudu kuma daga baya aka gano tana da ciki na watanni shida a lokacin mutuwarta. Da farko an yi zargin cewa dalilin mutuwar ta kashe kanta ne, amma bayan ci gaba da bincike kan raunukan Harsent da shaidar da ke kewaye da ita, 'yan sanda sun kammala cewa an kashe ta. 

Babban wanda ake zargi da laifin shi ne William Gardiner, saboda jita-jita game da dangantakarsa da Harsent, da kuma shaidar da aka samu a wurin aikata laifin. 'Yan sanda na yankin sun kama shi kuma sun tsare shi a ranar 3 ga Yuni 1902. 

An yi zargin cewa Gardiner shine mahaifin yaron da ba a haifa ba. Gardiner ya rike wani matsayi na wani shahararren aiki a matsayin foreman a cikin aikin hako iri na gida. Ya zauna a kan babban titin Peasenhall tare da matarsa da yara shida, a cikin wani karamin gida, a gaban gidan Providence inda aka yi kisan.

 Shari'a da sakamakonsa 
Yan sanda sun binciki kisan kuma an kama Gardiner. An gwada shi sau biyu a Ipswich Assizes da aka gudanar a cikin County Hall. Shari'ar farko, wacce ta fara a ranar 7 ga Nuwamba 1902 kuma ta dauki kwanaki uku, Sir William Grantham ne ya jagoranci; na biyu, wanda ya fara a ranar 20 ga Janairun 1903, Sir John Compton Lawrance. A kowane shari'a, Henry Fielding Dickens ya gurfanar da Gardiner kuma Ernest Wild ya kare shi. Sau biyu juriya ba ta iya kaiwa ga yanke hukunci ba - an ce a shari'ar farko, an raba juriya goma sha ɗaya zuwa ɗaya don goyon bayan laifi, kuma na biyu goma sha ɗaya don goyon baya ga rashin laifi. (Tun daga shekara ta 1974, rashin amincewar mai juriya guda ɗaya bai hana juriya dawo da Hukuncin mafi rinjaye ba, amma a lokacin da ya yi.) Mai gabatar da kara ya ba da umarnin nolle prosequi. Wannan ya bambanta da tsarin da aka saba amfani da shi na wankewa. Sakamakon wannan shi ne cewa Gardiner yana daya daga cikin mutane kalilan a tarihin Ingila da aka yi musu shari'a don kisan kai kuma ba su da wani hukunci.￼