Jean Lee - The last woman to be hanged in Australia
Jean Lee - The last woman to be hanged in Australia Jean Lee, an attractive 31 year old redhead, made history as the last woman to hang in Australia when she went to the gallows in Pentridge prison in the Coburg suburb of Melbourne in Victoria state on the morning of Monday, February 19th, 1951. She and her two male companions were hanged for the murder of 73 year old dwelling house landlord and bookmaker, William "Pop" Kent. Jean Lee was apparently quite intelligent and a bit rebellious at school and had a succession of dead end jobs from which she soon left or was fired. She married at 18 and lived with her husband for about nine years before leaving him and entrusting her daughter to her mother. She had a relationship with a petty criminal who got her into prostitution with American servicemen. He acted as her pimp whilst she worked to support them both. She left him for another professional criminal, Robert David Clayton, with whom she fell deeply in love. A...