What Makes a Person Commit Such a Tragic Act? This is the question that may have been asked by May Kathleen Lees when she came home from work on the evening of 6th December 1944. As May stepped into the Enfield home she shared with her mother and elderly aunt, she had no idea of the scene that would greet her. After 6 PM on that fateful day, she entered the laundry or washroom and discovered her mother, Clara Evelyn Lees (nee Shepherd), aged 63, hanging from a rafter. This wa
