Penny dreadfuls: the Victorian equivalent of video games
On 17 July 1895, during an exceptionally hot, dry summer, the decomposing body ofa woman named Emily Coombes wasfound in a small terraced house in Plaistow, east London. Her two sons Robert and Nattie Coombes, aged 13 and 12, respectively were charged with the murder. Robert said that he had stabbed his mother