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The legendary British executioner
Albert Pirpoint is called the main executioner of Great Britain. He executed 200 Nazi war criminals and became a world celebrity. He later opened a bar where the guests came to take his autographs. Among the people he executed, there was even a permanent client of his bar - and several innocent ones. According to various sources, he hung from 435 to 600 people. After the resignation, he published memoirs in which he condemned the death penalty, but after some time changed his opinion. The unusual life and career of Albert Pirpunton is in the material "Cold".
He trained to kill and planned the executions to the smallest details. More than 400 people died from his hands, including innocent
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On March 9, 1950, a 25-year-old driver from Wales Timothy Evans was executed in the London prison Pendville . He was found guilty of the murder of a one -year -old daughter. At the trial, he tried to prove that the crime was committed by his homeowner John Christie , but he was not believed and sentenced to hang him.
Three years later, the police discovered the remains of several women in the house where Evans lived. Christie was arrested, the court recognized him as a serial killer and also sentenced him to the death penalty.
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In 1966, Evans was posthumously pardoned , and his case became one of the most high -profile judicial mistakes in the history of Great Britain. Both the innocent Evans and Christy executed the same person - Albert Pirpoint, a British executioner, who became a legend during his lifetime.
"I want to become an executioner"
Pirpoint was born in 1905 in the English county of Yorkshire . His father and uncle worked as state executioners. In 1910, when Albert was only five years old, his father was fired - he came to the execution of drunk and attacked his assistant.
At the age of 11, Albert wrote in a school essay: "When I end the school, I want to become an executioner." At the age of 12, he got a job for a factory near Manchester, later worked in a store, and by the age of 27 he decided to follow in his father's footsteps. After several days of studying in Pentonville prison, he became an assistant executioner.
In those years, in the UK, the death penalty was carried through hanging. The executioner had to accurately calculate the length of the rope so that the convict died instantly from the neck fracture. Pirpoint for training used mannequins with bags and calculated what length of the rope would be required for a person of a certain weight.
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In 1941, when he was 36 years old, Pirpoint was appointed a state executioner. In 1945, during the Belzen process, he was sent to Germany over the Nazis. There he executed more than 200 Nazi war criminals, among whom was the commandant of the concentration camp of Bergen-Belzen Joseph Kramer and the 22-year-old oven of Auschwitz Irma Greze .
The popularity of the executioner is growing
The British press illuminated his work - and Pirpoint became famous.
“I taught other countries to the British execution system. This is not a reason for pride, just a fact: I carried out more death sentences than any other executioner in the history of Great Britain, ”Pirpoint told the royal death penalty commission , where he was called as the most famous executioner of the country.
Returning to his homeland, Pirpoint acquired a Pab of Help The Poor Struggler with his wife near Manchester. The institution quickly became a local attraction: visitors came for the sake of an autograph of the executioner, who executed hundreds of war criminals.
Among the permanent visitors of the bar was James Corbitt. With Pirpoint, they did not know each other by names and turned to each other nicknames - “Tish” and “Tosha”. Corbitta was convicted of killing his girls and sentenced to death.
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Shortly before that, he and Pirpunta sang the song “ Danny Boy ” in a Pube with a duet, and on the day of execution turned to each other nicknames from the bar.
“Hello, Tosha,” he said uncertainly. “Hello, Tish,” I said. “How are you?” “Order. Order,” he answered, ”Pirpoint recalled .
Loud executions
In 1950, Pirpoint executed Timothy Evans - a man whose guilt was pleaded with a judicial mistake. In 1953, the real killer of his wife and daughter, the homeowner and serial criminal John Christie, went to the same gallows.
In May 1951, Pirpoint conducted the execution of James Inglis , who was sentenced to death for the murder of a sex worker Elis Morgan. According to the prosecution, he strangled her after a quarrel due to payment of services. Inglis tried to prove that it was insane, but the court did not accept his arguments. The execution took about seven seconds.
In January 1953, Pirpoint executed 19-year-old Derek Bentley. His and 16-year-old Christopher Craig was found guilty of the murder of a policeman who tried to detain them during the robbery of the store.
Bentley claimed that he did not know that Craig had a gun. Craig himself insisted that he was not going to shoot. But the court considered the decisive moment the phrase “Let Him Have it, Chris!”, Which Derek said during the robbery. This multi -valued phrase, depending on the context, could be interpreted both as an order to shoot, and as advice to give weapons - but there was no context. The death sentence was sent only to Bentley, since the cruiser was a minor.
“Bentley flinched when the door suddenly swung open. It seems that he did not fully realize what was happening. He shrugged puzzled, but said nothing. I quietly said: “Just follow me, guy” <...>. He took a step, hit the table, but it seemed that he did not feel it, although the table trembled. I put a white hat on him and tightened the loop. There was a familiar click of a belt and buckles. From this moment on, any disputes lost meaning - Derek Bentley was dead, ”Pirpoint recalled in his memoirs.
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After execution, the Bentley family for decades sought his excuses. One of the police officers present during the detention later admitted that he did not hear the very words on which the charge was built. In addition, Bentley had mental retardation: his intellect corresponded to the level of an 11-year-old child, he hardly read and wrote. The verdict was declared invalid only in 1998 - 45 years after the execution.
In 1955, Pirpoint hung Ruth Ellis, convicted of killing a lover. She became the last woman executed in the UK. This case caused a wide public outcry: many believed that the sentence was too harsh. Discontent collapsed at the Pirpoint itself.
After the resignation
A year later, in 1956, Pirpoint asked the Ministry of the Interior to exclude him from the list of executioners. The formal reason was the dispute about the payment of the failed execution. During his career, he executed 435 people (according to other sources - about 600).
In the 1960s, Pirpoint, together with his wife, moved to the Primorsky city of Sautport and began to write memoirs. In 1974, his book “ The Executioner Pirpoint ” was published.
“I do not believe that the death of at least one of the executed I prevented other killings. The death penalty does not give any results. This is just revenge, ”he wrote in memoirs.
However, a few years later he changed his mind. “I know that I wrote it in the book, and when I wrote it, I really thought so. But since then, there have been much more crimes than it was in my time, and I simply cannot decide. They talk about the return of the death penalty for the murder of the police, but they never mention her return for the murder of children. If it is returned - well, okay, but let it be returned to everyone. The murder is a murder, ”he said in an interview.
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Albert Pirpoint died on July 10, 1992 at the age of 87. A year before his death in the UK, the film “Let Him Have It” was released - about the trial of Derek Bentley. In 2005, director Adrian Shergold filmed the biographical picture “Pirpoint: The Last Executioner” about how the profession changed the executioner’s eyes on life. Today, Pirpoint’s personal belongings are regularly put up for auction. In 2019, his notebook, gypsum casts of his face and hands, as well as a silver chain from the clock, were sold for 20 thousand pounds (approximately 2.1 million rubles). In 2023, another notebook of the executioner was bought for 10 thousand pounds (more than a million rubles).
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Author: Marina Kiryunina Photo: The Fincher Files / Popperfoto / Getty Images