Many people only feel really safe when they are within the bosom of their own family, surrounded by loved ones in a place where they can relax and throw off the cares of the day… But what if that home is a place of fear and dread? What if your home contains the one person you want to get away from? We present to you: SHEFFIELD’S TOXIC RELATIONS

There was the case of the husband who was so insanely jealous of his wife that he killed her at the Alexandra Opera House before hanging himself among the stage ‘flies.’ There is the case of Peter O’Neil who murdered his wife right in front of lodgers.

Spare a thought for little Elizabeth Waddington who was killed by her own father, who also tried to kill her mother in the most barbaric of ways. Albert Hodgson neglected his own three children to the point that they would have starved to death, if they weren’t rescued by the NSPCC.

Whilst it is more than fair to say that most elements of society have improved a great deal, since Victorian times. Even just in this year of 2021, stories in the news show that family relations can, even today, be appalling, or murderous….

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Pause for reflection on how safe and peaceful your life today is, and be thankful that, hopefully, you are not at risk, from some of Sheffield’s Toxic Relations. A collection of true tragedies that really happened in the streets of Sheffield, in the 19th Century.