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Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was a British man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman during a burglary attempt. Christopher Craig, then aged 16, a friend and accomplice of Bentley, was accused of the murder. Bentley was convicted as a party to the crime under the English law principle of joint ...
21 de dic. de 2022 · In 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.
30 de ene. de 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.
6 de sept. de 2017 · One cold January morning in 1953, Derek Bentley, a nineteen-year-old, barely literate youth in the wrong place with the wrong words, was hanged for a murder he did not commit. During an attempted burglary a couple of months earlier, a policeman had been fatally shot by Bentley’s sixteen-year-old friend Christopher Craig, a minor ...
Teenager 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 appeals for...
After 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 was a 19-year-old man with the mental age of an 11-year-old boy – but that didn’t stop the British justice system from exacting its full retribution upon him for the November 1952 murder in Croydon of PC Sidney Miles. It’s 70 years since Bentley went to the gallows for a murder he did.
