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Onlookers during the execution of Rowlands and Driscoll in 1928 HM Prison Cardiff (Welsh: Carchar Caerdydd EF ) is a Category B men's prison , located in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff , Wales . The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service .
Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men, Viking (2021). Chris Phillips, Hanged for the Word If: The murder of Lily Volpert and the execution of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, the author (2020). David Thomas, Seek Out the Guilty, Long (1969) (chapter on the murder of Granville George Jenkins by Tahir Gass). Geoff Tibballs, Legal Blunders, Robinson (2000).
Berwyn (2017) a Category C men's prison, located in Wrexham is the UK's largest prison with a capacity of 2,106. Berwyn is the Prison Service's flagship prison. Usk (1844) a Category C men's prison which also includes a satellite site Prescoed (1939) a Category D men's open prison; Cardiff (1832) a Category B men's prison,
The Fortune Men is a non-fiction novel that semi-fictionalises the true story of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, a Somali former merchant seaman who was executed after being wrongfully convicted of the 6 March 1952 murder of Lily Volpert (renamed Violet Volacki in the book) in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. Mattan was posthumously acquitted in 1998 when it was ...
HM Prison Swansea (Welsh: Carchar Abertawe EF) is a Category B/C men's prison, located in the Sandfields area of Swansea, Wales. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service , and is colloquially known as 'Cox's farm', after a former governor.
His execution was the last public hanging in the UK. 1 April 1872: William Frederick Horry was hanged at Lincoln Castle. This was the first execution in history to use the long drop method of hanging. 24 March 1873: Serial killer Mary Ann Cotton was hanged at Durham Gaol for the murder of her stepson.
Harold Bernard Allen (5 November 1911 – 14 August 1992) was one of Britain's last official executioners, officiating between 1941 and 1964.He was chief executioner at 41 executions and acted as assistant executioner at 53 others, at various prisons in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and Cyprus.
Of the 18 men executed, eight were convicted of murder, six of rape (which had not been a capital offence in the United Kingdom since 1841), and four of both crimes. A 2003 Channel 4 film claimed that a disproportionate number of black soldiers were executed: although the U.S. military was 90% white , 10 of the 18 men executed there were black ...