"Let Him Have it, Chris"

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Despite his family's efforts and public support, Bentley is executed in 1953 within a month of being convicted, before Parliament takes any official action. Though Bentley had never been accused of attacking any of the police officers, who were shot at by Craig, for him to be convicted of murder as an accessory in a joint enterprise it was necessary for the prosecution to prove that he knew that Craig had a deadly weapon when they began the break-in. Despite a history of mental illness, and with the court accepting that he did not actually pull the trigger, Bentley was still sentenced to death - on the basis that his ambiguous cry of 'let him have it!

After the subsequent broadcast of the BBC Play for Today adaptation of To Encourage the Others, directed by Alan Clarke and starring Charles Bolton, Haler sought to deny that he had given any specific estimate of the size of the bullet that killed Miles beyond being "of large calibre". His parents reported that in a childhood accident he had broken his nose and since then he had three seizure fits, including one in which they said he nearly died of choking. His crystal vocals enhance everything he does and it's just as well someone in the family can sing, as it is the first thing anyone asks a Welshman!Acquitted Too Late: Bentley received a pardon in 1998, decades after his execution, seven years after the movie was made and one year after his sister Iris' death. At 9am on January 28, 1953, the 19-year-old Bentley was hanged at Wandsworth Prison as his supporters rioted outside. Bentley broke free of Fairfax’s grasp and was alleged to have shouted the words "let him have it, Chris" – whether he had meant for his friend to hand over the gun or shoot was a point of contention in court.

Bentley was hanged for the death of PC Sidney George Miles, who was shot to death by Christopher Craig on November 2, 1952. He intended to kill, he killed and he showed no remorse for doing so but Bentley had only been armed with a knife and a knuckleduster, not a gun. More Lestrades followed and then some true crime and somehow it all snowballed so now he has many historical biographies and three other crime series (Maxwell, Marlowe and Grand and Batchelor, the latter two written with his wife, writing as Maryanne Coleman, though her name is Carol, actually! One interesting section of the book covers the limits on the Barrister in a criminal case - that he can only present what his client tells him to present. There he was administered diagnostic tests which eventually determined, when he was 15 + 1⁄ 2 years old, that his mental age was estimated at ten years, four months, while he had scored 66 on an IQ test.Others began booing when a prison warder came out carrying a glass-covered board containing the execution notice. Bentley, when they find out the Home Secretary posted the execution date, despite all the public backlash. The first to reach the roof was Police Constable Sidney Miles, who was immediately killed by a shot to the head. The last was not entered as an exhibit in the trial, nor mentioned in Nickolls' evidence to the court.

Tali is also a musician, playing various instruments with some acclaimed bands; Gemma Hayes, the Coal Porters, Circulus and currently acid-folk ensemble The Lords of Thyme. Parris, Craig's barrister, argues that a 'third boy' was on the warehouse roof that night, and that he was the one who shouted 'Let him have it, Chris'. He notes, but then makes little of, the more likely explanation that the police version of events was not necessarily the correct one.The emotion and guilt you feel for Derek is indescribable, almost on par with Piggy in Lord of the Flies. Above all, Denise doesn’t want her son to be remembered as a murdered child, and with this beautifully written book she does just that. Seven years after the film was made and after numerous unsuccessful campaigns to get Bentley a full pardon, his conviction was eventually overturned by the Court of Appeal on 30 July 1998, one year after Iris's death. Webley calibre revolver, the barrel of which he had shortened so that it could be carried easily in his pocket.