The Last Execution in the United Kingdom.

In this video, I discuss the last judicial execution in the United Kingdom. It took place on August 13th, 1964, and the two that met their demise were "Peter Anthony Allen", and "Gwynne Owen Evans". They were executed for murdering "John Alan West". They intended to rob John to pay a £10 pound fine they got from another crime, as the duo had a history of petty crime together, but due to Gwynne's jacket being left on John's banister, it wasn't long before the police found the culprits, who each blamed the other for the crime. Weeks after their execution, an act named "Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) act 1965" was put into place, that prohibited any further judicial executions. If the execution of Peter & Gwynne had been delayed by a few weeks, it's likely they would have faced prison, rather than execution. Reports released in Summer 2017 by the National Archives, indicated that Gwynne Evans had "Serious psychological problems", which if his defense team had presented at his trial, could have led to his escaping of the execution. This video is a simple look back at an event in history. Thank you for watching. I aim to present information an efficient format, without wasting your time with needless irrelevant chatter, in videos meant to present specific information. Have a great day.

[@janebufton1960]

Life in prison doesn't mean life for murderers. Their victims haven't got that choice. These people made sure of that!

[@skylarkman2000]

Life in this country is a joke . Should be like in the USA. Life means Life . Two of the Manson gang have now done 50 years inside .

[@CarputingYT]

I just realized this video blew up holy thanks everyone this is inspiring to make more history content

[@madade27]

it was in Wandsworth prison until 1992.

[@gnomely1]

Cumbria isn't a town in northern England. It's a county and its name indicates that it was the land of Cambrians or Welsh people.

[@leftin74]

Cumbria no longer exists as of April 2023. You now have Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness . Reverting back to 1974

[@gnomely1]

@@leftin74 I'm delighted that they've reverted to pre-1974 status. There was litle or no sense behind the 1974 nonsense. I'm from Northumberland and, like many others, I deeply resented the absurd ersatz county of Tyne and Wear. My comment was solely in response to this video.

[@brendasg155]

Get rid of the death penalty and replace it with 10 - 15 years in prison. What can possibly go wrong?.

[@mr.atomic2970]

Knifecrime intensifies

[@640626]

10-15 years for murder thats a cheap price to pay to take another persons life that means you can be out within 7-8 years if you brush your teeths and go to bed as you shall. 25-40 years should be more Adequate.

[@mr.atomic2970]

@@640626 death penalty is the best.

[@llort3007]

Should've announced to the public that the next criminal they catch will be the last executed person. nobody would commit a crime

[@andrewemery4272]

Cumbria is a County, not a town.

[@mrmods7912]

There where 296 murders in the UK in 1964, yet only one of these ended up in the use of the death penalty. What sort of justice system operates like that? No wonder it was abolished in Dec 1969!

[@vespelian]

Cumbria is not a town.

[@stuartinnes81]

From sarah liverpool .I looked after Peters son who was very disabled ,, Ii was 13 _16 from 85 so looked like his dad he lived with me in Wavertree liverpool I was fostered and my mum worked in olive Mt hospital as an sen nurse .I would teach him to communicate with a towel ,swim and change him of a night I would push him in his wheelchair at the arts centre .he was the most beautiful human being who used to find such joy in the most simplistic of things and laugh so much that I can still hear it nearly 36 years later .😢❤

[@Spillers72]

There was only 4 months between the crime and the execution.

[@OldFloatingSeaman]

On conviction, three clear Sundays and you were dispatched. No 10 years plus on death row in England

[@GlennPowell-ls3lg]

It may never happen but I think there was a caviat to abolishing the death penalty in the UK which would allow it still in the event of attempted murder/murder of the monach? There was a working gallows in a prison ( forget which one) until quite recently.

[@sockington1]

cumbria is not a town you berk

[@brianperry]

When the death penalty was abolished l expected it to be replaced with actual life in prison...instead it was replaced with 10-15 years for some cases...Hanging was never justice but vengeance....ie:-Derick Bentley.

[@alastairgreen2077]

The newspaper could have at least used a photo of the proper noose, not the one use in the USA.

[@brucenichols9153]

Best to give them hard labour for life, death is too good for them

[@mr.atomic2970]

Thats what my mother allways says.

[@vespelian]

So the tabloids would have us believe.

[@alanhindmarch4483]

CUMBRIA isn’t a Town, it’s a County. They wouldn’t have dropped out of School at 15 years of age, as that was the normal age for leasing school at that time.

[@clambroth1923]

They were both still in the 4th grade at age 15 when they finally (were) drop (kicked) out of the school system.

[@petew5289]

I left school in December 1971 at age 15 it went to 16 in1972

[@alanhindmarch4483]

@@petew5289 I left school in 1969 at 15, but could have stayed till 16 to do GCSE’s.

[@petew5289]

@@alanhindmarch4483 stayed on for one term in 5th year decided I'd had enough and left in December

[@wendynicklin7693]

A British movie I think is 10 rillington pl!! A innocent man was executed !

[@Cassius..]

It was David Evans. Christie murdered his wife and unborn child, blamed it on Christie but the police didn’t believe him, it was when the. new occupants of the house found the bodies of numerous people Christie was caught and hanged.

[@skylarkman2000]

An excellent film . Sooo sad about Tim Evans.

[@sheilaroddick5853]

I think Evans daughter was about 16 months old and Christie strangled her with a tie.

[@wendynicklin7693]

@@sheilaroddick5853 had nightmares after watching the movie

[@sheilaroddick5853]

@@wendynicklin7693 Evans was in North Wales visiting his mother who told the police that was true.So they hung him anyway.

[@user-tr3lq3dc8z]

I know someone whose father was killed by 2 robbers in his home. Got caught, but got off due to lack of evidence. Before dna, etc.

[@mikeohagan2206]

thats when you have to take care of it yourself.

[@davebinks]

The trouble with saying hang only those who "definitely" killed someone is what about the ones who "almost definitely" killed, do you hang them also? And the ones who "probably" killed, hang them? My point is that it's a slippery slope, where do you stop? There have been numerous instances of people being found guilty of killing, but later were proved not to have done it. If you have hanged them, they can't be released, even though it's now acknowledged they were innocent. I have no problem in someone being given a life sentence, and serving life. But if it later transpires they were innocent, thay can be released. How would YOU feel if you were found guilty of murder when you didn't do it? Would you be happy to be hung? The fact is it DOESN'T DETER. During the public hangngs that used to held, where pickpocets and the like were hung, other pickpockets operated in the crowd watching!! Many murderers don't think about the consequences, they just do it on the spur of the moment, or think they will get away with it. Ask yourself a question - do you speed in your car when there is a police car following you? It's the same punishment as if there is no police car following you. The difference is your chance of getting caught.

[@derekstocker6661]

Very good comment, I am all for a whole of life sentence rather than execution, as you say you cannot release, or compensate someone who has wrongfully met the ultimate fate but, Life should mean just that, we see far too many killers getting a "Life Sentence" that means absolutely no such thing. Now they hand out life sentences in multiples to make up a more acceptable to the public sentence that STILL means no such thing as a life sentence, so little punishment and absolutely no deterrent. We now have the farce of killers guilty of more than one murder being released, what value is there on human life, especially in Britain.

[@terrygabriel6937]

The law, forensic science and technology has moved on in leaps and bounds since capital punishment was a reality. There was no DNA, no CCTV, no tape recording or video of police interviews. No custody time limits, no statutory rights to have a lawyer on tap. No CPS or Criminal Cases review Commission to review evidence and refer matters to the Appeal courts. The chances of anyone being wrongfully charged or convicted is highly unlikely in this day and age. Besides with lay jurors who can hardly read the oath would be too frightened to convict on overwhelming evidence if the penalty was mandatory death.

[@PD55_]

Last, until an angry UK population demands its return.

[@beckyuk]

Hi. Cumbria is not a town

[@johnbowkett80]

Correct .... Cumbria is a sausage . 😜

[@beckyuk]

@@johnbowkett80 really lol

[@sockington1]

@@johnbowkett80 fool

[@sethpujol1704]

The UK infuriates me with their BS justice system and I don't even live there. It's an absolute joke! When I'm watching a doc. on netflix or something and the UK will give a serial killer 20 years in prison I wanna throw something at my tv! I couldn't imagine being a family member of a victim and watch a judge basically hand out a slap on the wrist to their psychotic murderer.

[@chrisclarke7828]

You will be surprised that some years ago a young professional footballer had a 15 year old female fan in his car, he was found guilty of 'kissing her' and nothing else. He was given 7 years prison and lost his career. The next day a 17 year old scumbag kicked a 70 year old man to death in the street. He was given 3 years youth custody.

[@Cassius..]

Yes give us the laws well sentences like in the U.S. where someone is charged for #ape amd gets the proper sentence not 4 years and out in 2 with good behaviour or murder and getting 10 out in 6 it’s billshit.

[@sroevukasroevuka]

Case of f around and find out.

[@larshansson9442]

Lets continue with it. Very dangerous people should not exist. Today we have very good possibilities with the DNA and of course the cameras everywhere.

[@tonylocke1214]

The number of executions of innocent people, was one of the major factors in the abolition of the death penalty. Even today, hundreds of wrongful executions are being, or have been carried out in the United States alone. Notwithstanding the numbers of illegal, wrongful, and unjustified, and malicious executions carried out in numerous countries around the world. So tell me, would you be comfortable with pulling the trigger on someone, knowing that you could well be taking the life of someone wrongfully convicted? If so, then I really don’t think that we could have a reasonable discussion on the subject.

[@larshansson9442]

My concern is death penalties in western democratic countries not the "numerous countries around the world". Dictatorships are most of them evil by their nature. People who kill for pleasure, money or terror reasons should not exist and how do you know that hundreds of executions have been carried out in the U.S? Not in modern times with the possibillities of modern technologies of proofs. @@tonylocke1214

[@vicvega3614]

​@@tonylocke1214hundreds of wrongful executions? You mean wrongful convictions either way ur definitely full of shit

[@maconescotland8996]

In case it was missed - they were executed at different prisons.

[@raymondsawyer8626]

Walton Liverpool and Strangeway Manchester

[@williambilly3269]

I live between both of them. I'm sure everyone is pleased to know

[@daniellebrunel2960]

Exactly! Glenn F. 100% agree with you unfortunately thing's have changed for the worse.

[@reesfleming]

Rip. I've gone on hunger strike against the nps. The system works no different now

[@janebufton1960]

Certain crimes such as murder with intention, and treason. These should carry the death penalty.

[@mr.atomic2970]

Exactly

[@MaxBrooks-es5kz]

Terrorism too

[@williambilly3269]

And trump worship

[@normanpearson8753]

This was pre drugs England , presumably relatively crime free !

[@andrewnewton2246]

The death penalty is never, ever acceptable.

[@thomasbrookes2266]

I always thought that JAMES HANRATTY was the last

[@normanpearson8753]

No , he was 1962 . Great case, that .DNA says he was guilty.

[@JohnDavies-cn3ro]

I did too, to be honest - I remember the Hanratty case, when I was a child. Hanratty got all the media attention, and this pair went out unnoticed.@@normanpearson8753

[@denisepurcell4031]

So did I, hanged in Bedford

[@ganrimmonim]

Please, G-D we live to see the abolition of the death penalty would wide.

[@640626]

That will never happen because in the middle east the arab countries still live in the middle ages and punish people by the Quran and that will never end..

[@robertrobinson-9161]

I was born three days later

[@truthmediarebel5816]

The last person sentenced to death in UK was Liam Holden 1972 and I proved he was innocent. Framed by the police , Army and Gerry Adams.

[@danocable]

Gerry Adam’s was he IRA ?

[@derek-press]

Cumbria is a massive town ,just saying

[@PeterFlynn-bp5fi]

Cumbria isnt.a town its a county of England

[@exgunnerdaz]

Bring back hanging 🇬🇧

[@anthonycaruso8443]

Amen.

[@antoniosilvestro9045]

No😊

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Yes. A great loss to humanity . Who knows ; they may have gone on to discover a cure for cancer ??

[@rossbrown6641]

Pitiful English humour?

[@petermarwood1653]

Cumbria is a county. Love the mispronounced name places!

[@jackpresley3254]

Cumbria isn't a town it's a county. Also Lancashire and Cheshire are pronounced Lancasheer and Chesheer

[@denisepurcell4031]

Thank you, it bugs me when places are renamed or moved 😊

[@jackpresley3254]

@@denisepurcell4031 what are you on about?

[@denisepurcell4031]

@@jackpresley3254 I was obviously referring to your post regarding the correct pronunciation of Lancashire and Cheshire etc and the fact that Cumbria is a County not a town.

[@larry1824]

Wasn't he innocent?

[@ganrimmonim]

If memory serves there was fairly good evidence that one of them was innocent but the authorities didn't want there to have been 'a last man hanged' in England.

[@georgepatterson3428]

Who?

[@skylarkman2000]

​@@georgepatterson3428 Peter Allen and Gwynn Evans .

[@johnskinner1119]

Really, including all those innocent people murdered by the state and subsequently pardoned !!

[@carlogambacurta548]

Amusing

[@larry1824]

Well at least youre sorta famous

[@zackzack316]

.. bring it back.....they will be very busy to execute soon or later most of the crap crossing the channel...

[@fubartotale3389]

Agreed, and lets not forget folks like you as well

[@vespelian]

And of course you will volunteer to die first to set an example won't you.

[@mikdan8813]

Oi bruv, proper rude, innit?

[@jihnbrumfield4976]

Astronaut

[@paullofthouse2708]

The Last Execution in the United Kingdom. Was Mary Elllis. By Pierpoint.

[@stevenbevis9290]

Incorrect

[@stevenbevis9290]

Not Mary Ellis was Ruth but several executions after her but not by Pierrepoint . He resigned because of doubts over Ruth Ellis guilt .

[@stephencorkhill3187]

@@stevenbevis9290 nonsense pierpoint resigned when a convicted murderer was reprieved and the hone office refused to cover certain expenses he had incurred.Nothing to do with Ruth Ellis.

[@carolramsey6287]

Oh dear. Serious mental problems! Well every criminal nowadays has those. PTSD, ADHD or some other 'ism' or disorder. It's never their fault, they were 'deprived' or victims of systemic racism etc. In mediaeval times prisons were only used for holding the accused until trial. If guilty of serious or repeat offences they were banished or executed. Minor offences were dealt with in other unpleasant ways such as ad ay or two inthe stocks or flgging.. When the capital offences were downgraded in Tudor times, guess what? Yes the crime rate went up! I have long maintained that murderers rarely repeat their crimes, serial killers excepted. Persistent petty criminals however, are a constant drain on society and spend all their lives in and out of prison and being a pest in the community. If these two had been hanged for driving without a licence and their long history of offences they wouldn't have got as far as killing. If Colin Pitchfork had been hanged for flashing he wouldn't have raped and killed two young girls. Or perhaps as Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson suggested on Not The Nine O'Clock News, we should just "Cut their goolies off!"

[@susanlynch1966]

Ruth Ellis was the last woman executed in the UK; not the last person.

[@glennf9582]

Those were the days when there was justice.

[@miketaverner4451]

No they weren't, innocent people wrongly convicted and put to death say so . Yes it happened and not just once or twice. There is nothing just about that

[@vespelian]

The Daily Express is strong in this one. 🐑

[@jackryder-sw9rk]

Call it revenge murder because this is was what it was.

[@vespelian]

wouldn't it be poetic if you were to strung in a miscarriage of justice . ⚖️

[@billroyal942]

Surely Timothy Evans would not agrée with you.

[@brettnaugher2176]

The clothes cleaner was a englishman and inherintly stole people's clothes and England didn't appreciate his treatment. They have to get use to getting treatments.

[@jensonank2409]

What are you on about?

[@brendasg155]

?

[@fantomas3066]

@@jensonank2409 du teinturier 😉

[@johnshort5003]

@@jensonank2409 He's right about treatments but the cleaner wasn't inherent (which he spells wrong).

[@richardhewitt1648]

@@johnshort5003 incorrectly.

[@michaeltimson4048]

BRING BACK HANGING Mick Timson

[@JosephThomas-el3ze]

I think the Death penalty should Be Brought Back in this country has a detarent and all so if anyone kill's some one than he or she should be hanged

[@michaelsharpin3369]

Hanging is ok until they hang innocent people.

[@jackryder-sw9rk]

Albert Pierrepoint the last and most professional execution said he did not think it was a deterrent, notice the spelling.

[@derek-press]

@@jackryder-sw9rk nice spelling but you might need one of these in the future " , "

[@jackryder-sw9rk]

What is your point?@@derek-press

[@derek-press]

@@jackryder-sw9rk grammar is my point

[@richardmoss5934]

Learn how to pronounce the names of counties!! The "shire" sounds hilarious!

[@marioncannon9924]

Capital punishment is abhorrent

[@mikeohagan2206]

and murder isnt? you would change your mind if it was someone in your family who was killed.

[@jihnbrumfield4976]

Cobras and tranqalia s

[@weldschoonmaker]

M n n

[@busreaa6282]

¡Pero los pueblos precolombinos eran "bárbaros" y los europeos muuuuy "civilizados"! Jajajaja jajajaja