Welcome to the John 'Babbacombe' Lee resource site.

On Saturday 15th November 1884, elderly spinster, Emma Keyse, was brutally murdered at her burnt out villa at Babbacombe Bay, South Devon, England.

The person accused of this atrocity was her employee, 20 year old John Lee, a young man from nearby Abbotskerswell. Lee was sentenced to hang, but after three attempts he survived and served a life sentence. In an instant, John 'Babbacombe' Lee was to become notorious as 'The Man They Couldn’t Hang'.

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