Donald Hume
Brian Donald Hume and his wife Cynthia, 1949.
(Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Donald Hume
Brian Donald Hume, a 29-year-old company director charged with the
murder of London
car dealer Stanley
Setty, whose dismembered corpse was found in the Essex marshes,
1949.
Hume pleaded guilty to being
an accessory to murder, though he later admitted
to the murder in a
newspaper interview.
(Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Donald Hume
January 1950 - The trial of Brian Donald Hume, 29, company director,
accused of murdering
Stanley Setty,
a car dealer, opened in No. 1 Court at the Old Bailey here on Jan. 18.
A torso alleged to be that of Setty,
was found off the Essex coast on Oct. 21.
Photo shows exhibits in the
trial arriving at the Old Bailey.
Stanley Setty
"I, Donald Hume, do hereby confess to the Sunday
Pictorial that on the night
of October 4, 1949, I murdered
Stanley Setty
in my flat in Finchley-road,
London. I stabbed him to death while we
were fighting."