Miles Giffard


Miles William Giffard was an English cricketer and convicted murderer. He played cricket five times for the Cornwall County Cricket Club in the 1948 Minor Counties Championship. He was later executed for the murder of his parents.

Education

Giffard was born in 1925, and he was educated at Rugby School in Rugby in Warwickshire and at Blundell's School in Tiverton.

Cricket

Miles Giffard played cricket for the Cornwall County Cricket Club in the 1948 Minor Counties Championship, playing against Devon at St Clare Ground in Penzance on 16 July 1948 and Surrey Second XI at Kennington Oval on 4 and 5 August 1948.

Crime

By the age of 14 Giffard was being seen by a psychiatrist who was concerned at his mental deterioration. By the time Miles was 26 he was in the words of his doctor, an 'idle little waster' who, despite being given every opportunity, had been unable to hold a steady job. Miles’ parents were busy and well respected people in St Austell, his father Charles being a solicitor and clerk of the court to St. Austell magistrates and his mother Elizabeth was vice chairman of the St Austell Conservative Association and President of the Conservative Women's Association.
It is reported that:
The bodies were found the next day and the police had little trouble tracing Giffard and arresting him.

Execution

Giffard was hanged at Horfield Prison in Bristol on 24 February 1953.

TV production

played the part of Miles Giffard in the 1970 production "Conceptions of Murder: Conversation Piece" directed by Graham Evans.