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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. Christopher Craig, then aged 16, a friend and accomplice of Bentley, was accused of the murder.
Learn about the case of Derek Bentley, who was hanged for murder in 1953 despite public outcry and doubts about his guilt. Find out how his case contributed to the abolition of the death penalty in Britain.
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.
Derek Bentley was executed in 1953 for his role in the killing of a policeman during a robbery. His case sparked a campaign for justice and a pardon, based on his mental age and the unreliability of the police evidence.
Derek Bentley was hanged on the 28th of January 1953, at the age of 19 and the above words appear on his grave stone. 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.
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.
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.
