20 year old Victor John Terry was a wannabe gangster from Chiswick in London. Terry had been in trouble with the law since the age of eight and had served time in Borstal for a violent robbery he committed at the age of 18. He had a girlfriend, 18 year old Valerie Slater, who lived in Worthing in Sussex. … Read more
21-year-old Henry Burnett became the last person hanged in Scotland in the newly constructed Condemned Suite at Craiginches Prison in Aberdeen at 8 a.m. on Thursday, the 15th of August 1963. He was executed for the murder of 27-year-old merchant seaman Thomas Guyan on the 31st of May 1963. Background Thomas Guyan married Margaret May … Read more
Background and murder. 19 year old Pearl Gamble was a shop assistant who she lived at home with her parents and three sisters lived in Upper Damolly near Newry, Northern Ireland. On Friday the 27th of January 1961, she went to a dance in the Henry Thompson Memorial Orange Hall in Newry with two other girls and her boyfriend Joe Clydesdale. … Read more
Background James Francis Hanratty was born in Farnborough, near Orpington in Kent, on October 4th, 1936. By the age of 25, he had convictions for housebreaking and car theft and had been released from prison in March of that year. However, he had no convictions for violent offences. The Crime Thirty-four-year-old Michael J. Gregsten, a … Read more
The Crime Russell Pascoe, aged 24, and 22-year-old Dennis John Whitty were jointly convicted of the murder of 64-year-old William Garfield Rowe at Nanjarrow Farm at Constantine near Falmouth in Cornwall on Wednesday, the 14th of August 1963. Pascoe had lived in Constantine and Whitty at St. Keverne. Gossip in the village was that William … Read more
