Look Back: The murderous life of Newtown-born poisoner Sarah Jane Robinson ‘The Boston Borgia’

Look Back: The murderous life of Newtown-born poisoner Sarah Jane Robinson ‘The Boston Borgia’

Few may have heard the story of notorious serial killer Sarah Jane Robinson and even fewer may know that she was born on the outskirts of Armagh in the town of Newtownhamilton. Certainly locally, little may be known of the woman who in 1886 was accused of murdering upwards of eight people – including three of her own children, William, Moses and Lizzie. Her crimes had her dubbed by the press as ‘A Modern Borgia’, ‘The Boston Borgia’ and ‘The Mas…