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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.
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 ...
On the evening of 28 March 1960, a fire started in a bonded warehouse owned by Arbuckle, Smith and Company in Cheapside Street, Anderston, Glasgow.. The Glasgow Fire Service was initially alerted by a 999 call at 7:15 pm from the foreman of the Eldorado Ice Cream Company, which was near the whisky bond.
The death penalty for murder was abolished in Northern Ireland on 25 July 1973 under the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973. Following the abolition of the death penalty for murder, the House of Commons held a vote during each subsequent parliament until 1997 to restore the death penalty.
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 ...
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
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