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Anthony Joseph Miller (1941 – 22 December 1960) became the second-last criminal to be executed in Scotland when he was hanged at Glasgow's Barlinnie Prison on 22 December 1960. Miller had been convicted of murdering John Cremin at Queen's Park Recreation Ground (near Hampden Park ) in Glasgow on 6 April 1960. [ 1 ]
A family friend told how for every night until his death the former inspector had been haunted by the shootings of his colleagues. [3] It is widely believed that the same gang had violently robbed the British Linen Bank in nearby Williamwood for £20,000 a few months earlier, along with a fourth man, getaway driver Archibald McGeachie.
The following day he was found strangled to death on the site of a demolished vicarage on Tavistock Road, Croydon. [134] January 1960 Emily Tharme Poole, Dorset 44-year-old Tharme went missing in January 1960. [135] Her body was later found in Wheelers Lane. [136] January 1960: Eva Booth: Hartley, Plymouth, Devon
The death penalty was mandatory (although it was frequently commuted by the government) until the Judgement of Death Act 1823 gave judges the official power to commute the death penalty except for treason and murder. The Punishment of Death, etc. Act 1832 reduced the number of capital crimes by two-thirds.
Forsyth, who claimed his girlfriend Margaret Caitlin was expecting his child in January 1961, [2] was the last 18-year-old to be hanged in Britain. 19-year-old Anthony Miller became the last teenager to be executed in Britain when he was hanged in Glasgow just over a month later, on 22 December 1960. Three other eighteen-year-olds were executed ...
She was convicted and sentenced to death — later commuted to life — but was granted a retrial in 1977 due to the failure to declare a mistrial when her lawyer died. The jury deadlocked during ...
A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time.This list does not include serial killers who raped their victims, then killed them; only serial rapists who non-fatally attacked their victims and raped them should be included here.
While exploring a derelict warehouse, James Fenton was totally unprepared for the gruesome discovery he was about to make. Inside the dilapidated building, the urban explorer stumbled across the ...