EXECUTION CELL AT WANDSWORTH PRISON JUST BEFORE DEMOLITION (2006)

[Kelly14UK]

Ta! But why's there nothing on Evans and Allen 1964 on YT ?

[Kelly14UK]

See that very first scene, where the guy is standing @ 0:03? Is it true the Aussies would hang you there, in the middle, after locking all the prisoners in their cells?

eg Jean Lee 1951 ( last Aussie woman ).

[GuildfordGhost]

@tentheagle Why?

[alanheath3]

I would hardly call Bentley innocent.  He knew what he was doing when he went out on a robbery even if I did not pull the trigger himself.

[GuildfordGhost]

@alanheath3 Alan, I concur that Bentley WAS a small-time criminal who knew what he was doing and certainly deserved a custodial sentence for the break-in (even if he was uner Craig's influence to an extent). However, he was innocent of MURDER and that's what people are discussing.

[alanheath3]

@GuildfordGhost I suppose it is a case of being guilty (or not) as charged. I would definitely say he was an accessory but I suspect we are not going to agree on this one!

[sail1948]

@alanheath3 Bentley was mentally retarded so not responsible for his actions.

[alanheath3]

@sail1948 I think this excuse is used too often.

[alanheath3]

@sail1948 I think this excuse is used too often.

[GuildfordGhost]

@newworldodour Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

[newworldodour]

@GuildfordGhost No it's based on good research a confession by one of the perpetrators, the releases and discovery of documents held inn safe keeping, Abelines diaries and police records, there was also a book about it and I don't remember the Churchill family suing the author about it

[GuildfordGhost]

@newworldodour As a Ripper author, lecturer and historian of many years I can tell you that this field is absolutely swamped in errors, lies and outright fiction. I can't persuade you otherwise but, trust me, it's a conspiracy theory with absolutely nothing to genuinely back it up.

[GuildfordGhost]

@newworldodour <- YouTuber then responded with abuse. Post removed and user blocked. Incidentally, I checked the user's channel and indeed it's full of conspiracy nonsense. Let me make this clear : I do not tolerate trolls. Any troll comments get removed and the user gets blocked. I don't spend my time uploading these things to take abusive nonsense from immature inadequates.

[alanheath3]

@GuildfordGhost Quite right. I do this same thing!

[newworldodour]

I thought Bedford was the last hanging in UK??

[GuildfordGhost]

@newworldodour Nope. Walton & Strangeways at the same moment in 1964. Wandsworth just had the last working gallows.

[EDL4LYF]

they should bring hanging back, the poppy burners should get that penalty, people who abuse children should get it awell

[drapermovies]

@EDL4LYF But the case of Troy Davis in America claims differently

[dan32749]

He should of asked how many innocent people were killed there in his opinion . Bet it was a whole lot.:(

[xxxMostEnviedGurlxxx]

So them blue doors are the people's rooms????

SOMEBODY Messafe me

Need to ask something

thanks.

[badgerattoadhall]

why was he pardon is there no joint venture in the UK?

[unrealharry]

need to bring capital punishment like this back to set the examples of the scumbags we have today.

[TheKenfig]

@unrealharry Do you mean CONVICTED scumbags ?

[dfghjkl1624]

a full posthumous pardon how thoughtful of the british parliament. im sure it brought great comfort to his family. stupid court officials.

[whosesadie]

thank you for this, guildfordghost. i love watching stuff like this! - keeps me out of mischief! haha

[MsNicole6]

very interesting. txs.

[mywheelchairone69]

Very interesting.........Thanks!!

[iloveGTA123]

My nan works there =)

[ks1983ish]

good vid pal im in chertsey i must of been there when that was filmed or around that time i was on c wing and e wing was all borded up i remember cos a few pals got transfered when it finally shutc wing was bad enough but at least had a separete toilets whic gave a bit more room then i was back there early 09 it was all done up fresh but still its a grim place its mad that men were riding there bird in there so long ago new prisons such as belmarsh,highdown,bullindon and that are alot different

[blackpeople942]

wormwood scrubs is a fucking shit hole so much fucking heroin and mobiles in there

[cheyennebritbrat]

oxford jails a hotel now

[GuildfordGhost]

@cheyennebritbrat Indeed. I saw it from the outside when I went to Oxford Castle a couple of years back and wondered if I'd want to stay there - I think I decided not!

[alanheath3]

@GuildfordGhost Hello Phillip! I slept in a former concentration camp in July. I was going to sleep in my van in the car park but the security invited me to be nearer the main building should I wish to use the toilets.

[urbanproftw]

@cheyennebritbrat i know i had a lovely meal there :)

[slavehunter999]

wish they had left it as is was(Working gallows) just for history.

[MatthewBuick]

@slavehunter999 I agree. But they moved the trap itself to a museum in Nottingham, where it stays today.

[slavehunter999]

@slavehunter999  where in Nottingham as iam from Derby ??

[GuildfordGhost]

@slavehunter999 At a guess, I reckon it will be at The Galleries Of Justice - which is an outstanding museum and worth a trip to Nottingham on its own (I have a clip from it on the Two's Country series uploaded elsewhere on my account).

[knutgordon]

@slavehunter999

A shame indeed, but the trap doors was at least salvaged and are now a star attraction at a museum, complete with operational lever. They probably wouldn’t get away with hanging someone for treason these days, but it formally remain as a capital crime that punishment is to be carried out by hanging, drowning,or burning at the stake - so in theory it’s possible to re construct said working gallows.

[slavehunter999]

@knutgordon

Are they still at Notingham justice place or moved now??

[knutgordon]

@slavehunter999

Its featured on their website, so I guess they still are there along with a noose from Wandsworth and a beam from the last surviving public execution gallows.

[slavehunter999]

@knutgordon

For no crime can a person be put to death in the uk now. it was fully banned in 1998

and thats why the gallows was removed from the prison.. good to see thay have been saved. I think the same museum has harry allens case and tools and now the execution box with ropes and hood etc

[knutgordon]

I thought there remained a somewhat bizarre and antiqued law dealing with high treason against the crown. Upper punishment for said offence involved hanging, castration, disembowelment, and chopping the body in 6 parts - all in rapid succession none the less -before the remains were to be put on display in prominent places across the kingdom. For males at least, as females was to be just burned at the stake to avoid public indecency. Rather unlikely to be carried out in these days, though

[slavehunter999]

@knutgordon no mate all went in 2008. it was treason, piracy at sea or setting a fire in a royal dock yard. we were told that it had to go due to the human rights act.

What i do find strange is it says in the video all but wandsworth were taken out in the 60s however this could well be true as Syd Dernley claimed to have a gallows set up at home after he was sacked.

[kenfig]

Fucking horrible !

[lightpoacher]

Very interesting video GuildfordGhost

thankyou for uploading.

[flanneryged]

I was in this shithole in 1986 and it was run by macho fucking morons.The place is full of Rats/Mice/Cockroaches, and it's cold and very damp.The Screws are fair minded they hate everybody,the food is shit and non existant if your landing is the last down on the Weekend.I got one shower in six weeks!!.Also there are some very very nasty villains in there.They ship out to Broardmoor and Rampton.I saw a kid killed because a nutter had been refusing his medication,and he slashed this kids artery.