The last man to be hanged in Hampshire who committed a gruesome murder over £4
The last man to be hanged in Hampshire who committed a gruesome murder over £4 Dennis Whitty, executed at Winchester Prison, was among the last people to be hanged in the country It’s been 57 years since the last executions took place in the UK. Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans were the last sufferers of the death penalty, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, before capital punishment was suspended for murder in 1965 and finally abolished in 1969. It’s been 57 years since the last executions took place in the UK. Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans were the last sufferers of the death penalty, at Walton Prison in Liverpool, before capital punishment was suspended for murder in 1965 and finally abolished in 1969. However, did you know that the third-to-last prisoner to be hanged took place on our very shores in Hampshire? And the tale of his awful crime for such little reward is a damming one. Dennis John Whitty was born in 1941 and was 22 years of age when he committed his fatal crime, alongside...