Dandelion Dead

Could He Blow Them Away?

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.

• Release date
• October 30, 1994
• Runtime
• 60 min
• TMDB score
• 9

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