• 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 attempt. Christopher...
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    Derek Watkins (born February 13, 1974), known professionally as Fonzworth Bentley, is an American rapper, actor, television presenter, and author. He...
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  • notorious cases of this type was the 1952 case in England involving Derek Bentley, a mentally challenged man who was in police custody when his sixteen-year-old...
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  • undertook several contentious executions, including Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis and executions for high treason—William Joyce (also known...
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  • Tom Courtenay and Tom Bell. The film is based on the true story of Derek Bentley, who was convicted of the murder of a police officer by joint enterprise...
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  • unsuccessfully urged a reprieve for Derek Bentley, who was hanged aged 19 in 1953 for the murder of a policeman. Bentley, who was already under arrest at...
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    series Ambulance. He first rose to prominence for his portrayal of Derek Bentley in the 1991 film, Let Him Have It. His television performance in Our...
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  • respect of federal and provincial offences. In the important case of Derek Bentley, a court found that this royal prerogative power is "probably" entirely...
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    (Lord Haw-Haw) (3 January 1946) John George Haigh (10 August 1949) Derek Bentley (28 January 1953) Alfred Charles Whiteway (22 December 1953) Guenther...
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  • guilty in 2002 by DNA. Allen also assisted in the 1953 execution of Derek Bentley, who was posthumously pardoned. He performed one of the last two executions...
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  • Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley. He also campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty in the United...
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  • December 1952 Goddard presided over the trial of Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley, accused of the murder of PC Sidney Miles at a Croydon warehouse on...
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    interrogations. As seen in numerous famous cases (e.g. the convictions of Derek Bentley, the Guildford Four, the Bridgewater Three), many of the major concerns...
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  • is acknowledged to be a miscarriage of justice. Along with those of Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis, the case played a major part in the removal of capital...
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  • Port Chicago disaster, United States, 1944 Bhawal case, India, 1946 Derek Bentley case, United Kingdom, 1953 The Petrov Affair, Australia, 1954 The shooting...
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    against homosexuals in the UK in the 1950s, and declined to commute Derek Bentley's death sentence for the murder of a police officer. His political ambitions...
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  • Fifteen Streets by Catherine Cookson. In 1991, she played Iris Bentley, sister to Derek Bentley, played by Christopher Eccleston, in the film Let Him Have...
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    1952, two youths attempted to break into a Croydon warehouse: one, Derek Bentley, surrendered to the police but the other, sixteen-year-old Christopher...
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    convictions and subsequent hangings, such as the notorious case of Derek Bentley.[citation needed] The commission concluded that unless there was overwhelming...
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  • compensation was the first award to a family for a person wrongfully hanged. Derek Bentley was a learning disabled young man who was executed in 1953. He was convicted...
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  • Aircraft Recognition Handbook Derek Bentley (1933–1953), Englishman hanged for murder and subsequently pardoned Derek Chauvin (born 1976), American former...
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    Derek Reginald Bell MBE (born 31 October 1941) is a British racing driver. In sportscar racing, he won the Le Mans 24 hours five times, the Daytona 24...
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  • Purvis' screenplay for Let Him Have It (1991) (based on the true story of Derek Bentley, a young man who gets caught up in street gangs in post war London and...
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  • awarded the George Cross for his heroism in chasing the armed robbers Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig on 2 November 1952. The pair had broken into a...
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  • Encourage the Others (1972), a powerful drama-documentary about the Derek Bentley case (the case that was later dramatised in Peter Medak's 1991 film...
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  • conviction and hanging of Derek Bentley for the murder of a policeman. The case revolved around the issue of whether Bentley's words "Let him have it, Chris"...
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  • Denzel Bentley (born 1995), English professional boxer Derek Bentley (1933–1953), English subject of a controversial court case Dierks Bentley (born 1975)...
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    losing to Robert Duvall in Tender Mercies. He played the father of Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston) in the 1991 film Let Him Have It. And for an...
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    Bentley University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay...
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