He met her again on Thursday 20 June. They spent the evening at the Panama Club before retiring to the Pembridge Court Hotel slightly the worse for drink. The following morning the chambermaid was cleaning all the rooms and when she got to room 4 she knocked on the door and hearing no reply she let herself in. The room was still occupied although it did not look as if the occupant was likely to complain.

Margery Gardner was lying, on her back, in one of the single beds nearest to the door. She was naked and had her ankles bound with a handkerchief. She had a lot of bruising to her face and her nipples had been almost bitten off. Something had been inserted into her vagina and sharply rotated. On her back were seventeen criss-cross lash marks. Cause of death had been suffocation but only after the horrific injuries had been inflicted.

Another case in which the victim was suffocated was that of Arthur Beard who was a nightwatchman. In 1919 he was charged with attacking and raping 13 year old Ivy Lydia Wood. The cause of death was from suffocation Beard maintained that he was innocent as he had been drunk at the time so did not know what he was doing.

This was accepted but then later overturned by the House of Lords who maintained that while beard may have been too drunk to form the intention to kill he was however able to form the intention to commit a felony namely the rape during which he used the violence which led to the death of Ivy Lydia Wood. The result of this was to declare that Beard was indeed guilty of murder. His death sentence was however changed to one of life imprisonment