Charlotte Apartments

When Matthew Weeks was hanged at Bodmin on 12th August 1844 for the murder of Charlotte Dymond, over 20,000 people turned out to watch the execution. The shocking killing of a young girl, her throat cut on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, was a crime that seized the county’s imagination, and the subsequent trial of her boyfriend, Matthew, was avidly followed by press and public alike.

A stone memorial to Charlotte, which still stands at Roughtor on Bodmin Moor, was hastily erected by local people, stating that she was killed by Matthew Weeks. The fame of the story increased over the decades, with the publication of “The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond” by the Cornish poet Charles Causley in 1958. In the poem, Matthew is portrayed as a guilty but remorseful lover who could not bear that Charlotte had given her heart to a different man - “The only sin upon her skin, was that she loved another”.

Pat Munn Cast Doubts on the Conviction of Matthew Weeks

It was not until the 1970s that doubts began to emerge about the reliability of Matthew’s conviction. This was due to research done by Pat Munn, a Cornish author and historian who has published several books about Bodmin. While researching an article on Charlotte Dymond, she came across the original 1844 Prosecution Brief for Matthew Weeks’ trial. This sparked off a full investigation of the facts by Munn that culminated in the publication of her book The Charlotte Dymond Murder in 1978. In this book, Munn carefully takes apart the evidence presented in the trial and argues that it could not possibly stand up in a court of law today.

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