Dandelion Dead
30/10/1994



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This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
Cast


Peter Vaughan
Dr. Hinks


Bernard Hepton


Don Henderson


Lesley Sharp
Constance 'Connie' Martin, nee Davies


Diana Quick
Marion Glassford-Gale


Michael Kitchen
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong


David Thewlis
Oswald Martin


Sarah Miles
Catherine Armstrong


Robert Stephens
Henry Vaughan


Roger Lloyd Pack
Phillips


Patrick Godfrey
Griffiths


Paul Brooke
Arthur


Amanda Walker
Bessie
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