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"Let Him Have it, Chris"

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Goddard sentenced Bentley to be hanged, despite a recommendation for mercy by the jury: under the Judgment of Death Act 1823, no other sentence was possible. It was on the evidence of four words - "Let him have it" - that 19-year-old Derek Bentley was sent to the gallows in 1953.

This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.In May he was employed as a bin man by Croydon Corporation, but he was demoted to street sweeper for unsatisfactory performance. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. It holds an 84% approval rating from the review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 7. Bentley was examined twice by EEG: a reading on 16 November 1949 [1] indicated he was an epileptic and a reading on 9 February 1950 was "abnormal".

Parris, an inexperienced provincial barrister, was selected to defend Christopher Craig in the 'Trial of the Century'. He notes, but then makes little of, the more likely explanation that the police version of events was not necessarily the correct one. It features the Home Secretary, David Maxwell-Fyfe, and an appearance from the trial judge, Lord Goddard.The Court of Appeal was satisfied that under the circumstances, there would be different testimony given from the different viewpoints and Bentley was not set up by the police. Bentley's sentence was sealed last night when the Home Secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, said he could not see any reason for intervening in the case. In his 1971 book To Encourage the Others (the title is an acknowledged allusion to Voltaire's Candide), David Yallop documented Bentley's psychiatric problems, as well as what he believed were inconsistencies in the police and forensic evidence and the conduct of the trial. Flare Gun: A student hands in a brass Webley flare gun when Craig's teacher demands all his students place their guns on his desk. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab .

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