I'm struck by the tragic fates of these two Herefordshire teens

I have been commissioned by the Amberley Press to write a book about Herefordshire murders and, like Joe Cocker (Letters July 27), was struck by the similarities between the story of Mary Morgan, a teenager hanged in Presteigne for the murder of her new-born child in 1805 and that of Paris Mayo, sentenced in June to 12 years imprisonment for the murder of her new-born child.