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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Derek_BentleyDerek Bentley - Wikipedia

    Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was a British man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman during a burglary. Christopher Craig, then aged 16, a friend and accomplice of Bentley, was accused of the murder.

  2. www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk › articles › derekDerek Bentley: The teenager wrongly hanged for murder

    After deliberating for just 75 minutes, the jury found both Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley guilty of the murder of PC Miles. Bentley received a death sentence, while Craig, due to his age, was ordered to be detained at Her Majesty’s Pleasure.

  3. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleThe hanging of Derek Bentley, a 19-year-old boy with epilepsy

    Nov 1, 2017 · Nineteen-year-old Derek Bentley was convicted as a party to murder by the English legal principle of common purpose, joint enterprise. His friend Christopher (Chris) Craig, who was firing shots at the crime scene, was too young to be sentenced to death; in 1953, the minimum age limit for such a punishment was18 years.

    • Mia Tuft, Karl O. Nakken
    • 2017

  4. murderpedia.org › male › cChristopher Craig | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

    On the night of 2 November 1952, Christopher Craig, 16, and Derek Bentley, 19, tried to break into the warehouse of confectionery manufacturers and wholesalers Barlow & Parker on Tamworth Road, Croydon, England.

  5. news.bbc.co.uk › 2 › hiBBC News | UK | Bentley case breakthrough

    PC Sidney Miles was shot dead by Bentley's 16-year-old accomplice, Christopher Craig, after he confronted them on the roof of a sweet factory in Croydon, south London. The decision is a major...

  6. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › guidesDerek Bentley and the death penalty - Crime and ... - BBC

    In 1952 Derek Bentley, a 19-year-old with severe learning difficulties, was caught burgling a warehouse in London with a friend, Chris Craig.

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  8. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 28927710The hanging of Derek Bentley, a 19-year-old boy with epilepsy

    Derek Bentley (1933-1953) was sentenced to death by hanging at the age of 19. He was convicted as a party to murder, and he died in Wandsworth Prison in London. After the police had reached the crime scene, he ostensibly shouted to his 16-year-old friend Christopher (Chris) Craig the ambiguous phras ….