Posted on 12/13/2023 4:58:32 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1949, two young miners from northern England were hanged together at Durham prison for unrelated crimes of passion: one had ravaged and strangled another man’s wife when his attempts to seduce her were met with a demand for money; the other had murdered a local girl (and then botched his suicide) when he found himself on the third point of a love triangle.
Both crimes happened on the same weekend, just a few miles apart — so they were tried at the same assizes and advanced through the process from murder to hanging-date together. Double executions were already quite rare at this point: this date’s affair was among the last such events in UK history.*
However, it was the very first execution in which Syd Dernley participated...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
They were not repeat offenders.
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