Does Ewan MacColl's Go Down, Ye Murderers, Go Down count? There is another version, called The Ballad of Tim Evans. (Incidentally, in the last verse of the latter version, the name should be Christie, not Christy. John Christie was the mass murderer whose victims Tim Evans' wife and daughter became. He was hanged for his other crimes in 1953. Tim Evans' judicial murder contributed to the abolition of capital punishment in Britain, but it wasn't till many years later that he was formally declared innocent.