Derek Bentley - Wikipedia
WEBDerek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was a British man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman during a burglary. Christopher Craig, then aged 16, a friend and accomplice of Bentley, was accused of the murder.
Derek Bentley: The teenager wrongly hanged for murder
WEBAfter deliberating for just 75 minutes, the jury found both Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley guilty of the murder of PC Miles. Bentley received a death sentence, while Craig, due to his age, was ordered to be detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure.
Derek Bentley and the death penalty - Crime and punishment in …
WEBIn 1953, Derek Bentley was hanged for the murder of a policeman. This case was an important turning point in the campaign to abolish the death penalty.
‘A victim of British Injustice’: Derek Bentley remembered
WEBJan 30, 2020 · In 1953 Derek Bentley, aged 19, was convicted of the murder of PC Sidney Miles and sentenced to death. It is the most infamous example of the use of joint enterprise law. Bentley was found guilty despite neither possessing nor firing a gun and giving himself to the police without violence.
BBC ON THIS DAY | 28 | 1953: Derek Bentley hanged for murder - BBC News
WEBTeenager Derek Bentley has been executed at Wandsworth Prison in London for his part in the murder of Pc Sidney Miles. The 19-year-old was hanged at 0900 hours after last-minute...
How FOUR words got this man HANGED | The Case of Derek Bentley …
WEBJul 29, 2022 · When Derek William Bentley and Christopher Craig decided to rob a warehouse, they didn't bargain on a gun fight breaking out with Police. Though Derek wasn't armed with a gun and was quickly...
The hanging of Derek Bentley, a 19-year-old boy with epilepsy
WEBNov 1, 2017 · Derek Bentley (1933–1953) was sentenced to death by hanging at the age of 19. • He was convicted as a party to murder, and he died in Wandsworth Prison in London. • He had epilepsy and a mental age of about 11, and he could neither read nor write. • In 1998, his case was finally quashed.
Derek Bentley - Capital Punishment U.K
WEBDerek Bentley. Derek William Bentley "A victim of British justice? On the 30th of July 1998, the Appeal Court finally ruled (after 45 years of campaigning by his father, sister Iris and since Iris' death the previous year, by her daughter, Maria Bentley Dingwall), that his conviction was unsafe.
Briton Hanged in 1953 Is Finally Exonerated - The New York Times
WEBJul 31, 1998 · Britain's highest court overturns conviction of Derek Bentley, who was hanged at age of 19 in London in 1953 for murder of a police officer; court rules that trial judge had presented such a...
Derek Bentley conviction quashed after 45 years - BBC News
WEBJul 30, 1998 · Derek Bentley conviction quashed after 45 years. A British court has overturned the conviction of a teenager who was hanged in 1953 for murdering a policeman -- ending a forty-five year...
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