00:00Today, a story of a cricketer came out of the pages of the history of cricket
00:04On whom the accusation of murder had been placed
00:07And then, that cricketer was hanged
00:17The accusation of murder has been filed on many cricketers
00:20Even a formal case has been filed on them in the court
00:23In this list, there is Khalid Latif, who was accused of inciting a murder of a Dutch MP
00:27Navjot Singh Sidhu was also accused of inciting a road rage in 1988
00:33And there is also Montek Druid, who was known as a criminal cricketer
00:38So, all these cricketers were accused of murder
00:41But there is one cricketer, on whom the accusation of murder has been proved in the court
00:47And he is the only test cricketer, whose death was due to being hanged
00:52This cricketer was the fast bowler of West Indies, Leslie Hilton
00:56Who played 6 test matches for West Indies from 1934 to 1939
01:01And also took 16 wickets
01:03Leslie Hilton was accused of the murder of his wife
01:08This accusation was also proved in the court and he was sentenced to death
01:13And after that, in 1955, Leslie Hilton was also hanged in Kingston
01:18But what was the whole story? What happened?
01:22Leslie Hilton was born in a poor family on 29th March, 1905
01:26His parents died when he was a child, his elder sister raised him
01:29He dropped out of school and worked at a tailor shop when he was young
01:33When he grew up, he became a worker at a dock
01:35But he was crazy about playing cricket
01:38His luck shined and finally, he was selected as an all-rounder in the team of Jamaica
01:44From 1926 to 1939, Leslie Hilton played a total of 40 first-class matches
01:50In first-class cricket, Leslie Hilton's performance was great
01:54And in 1935, when the West Indies team was losing against England
01:59Leslie Hilton also got his first chance in test cricket as a fast bowler
02:05After this, he stopped playing the West Indies test and he was ignored
02:09After 4 years, in 1939, he came back to the test team
02:13And again went to play against England as a fast bowler
02:18But by that time, he was a better fast bowler
02:23After coming back, Leslie Hilton retired
02:26According to West Indies Cricket, he was capable of playing more than 6 tests
02:32He was a good player
02:33Now comes the second part of the story
02:36Leslie Hilton's personal life
02:38Leslie fell in love with the daughter of Jamaica's police inspector, Lorraine Rose
02:44She was from a rich family
02:46In 1942, they got married and had a son
02:50But their relationship was bad from the beginning
02:53His wife was a fashion designer and often went to New York for work
02:58That's why in 1951, Leslie Hilton shifted to Lorraine's mother's house to take care of the child
03:05So that she could take care of the child
03:07Then in 1954, Hilton got a letter from New York
03:10In which there was a mention of his wife's relationship with a man named Roy Francis
03:14And this issue became the biggest reason for a rift in their relationship
03:19Although Leslie's wife apologized for her affair
03:23But Leslie's doubt was never cleared
03:25Finally, Leslie received a love letter
03:28With this letter, there was a big fight between the two
03:32And this fight got so big
03:34That Leslie took out his revolver and shot his wife 7 times
03:39After this, Leslie himself called the police and gave information about this incident
03:43In October 1954, a case started in the court
03:46His captain Vivian Blake was on the team of Jamaica
03:49And he became his lawyer
03:51Along with him was the member of the West Indies Cricket Board, Noel Nethersole
03:55But because of not being a professional lawyer
03:58Leslie Hilton's case proved very weak in the court from day one
04:03His lawyers could not even prove
04:06That this fight started with the love letter
04:09And Leslie Hilton shot his wife in anger
04:14If this had been proved, he might not have been sentenced to death
04:18On October 20, 1954, the jury found him guilty of murder
04:24And sentenced him to death
04:26Later, the Supreme Court of Jamaica also issued an appeal against this decision
04:31On May 17, 1955, Leslie was hanged outside the St. Catharine District Jail
04:38And buried in the jail complex
04:40It is believed that Leslie Hilton defamed cricket
04:44Even in 1956, when Wisden published the news of his death
04:49It did not mention how he died
04:53Leslie's death was discussed more outside cricket than in cricket
04:57The legal community considered it unfair
04:59Two years after his death, in Jamaica
05:02A separate law was passed on the crime of incitement
05:05So that it could be decided that the crime was not intentional
05:09The only test cricketer in the world who was hanged
05:13Is rarely mentioned in the West Indies Cricket
05:17Because it is such a record
05:19That no cricketer or human being should compare
05:29You
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