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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 ...
- Wrongful conviction and execution
- 28 January 1953 (aged 19), Wandsworth Prison, London, England
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 ...
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.
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...
31 de jul. de 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 one ...
