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CROWN V COLONY — Let Him Have It: How Britain Hanged 19-Year-Old Derek Bentley for a Murder He Didn't Commit

Day four of CROWN V COLONY, and the story turns. Garret Fisher leaves the killers behind for a young man who killed no one at all. On a Croydon rooftop in November 1952, 19-year-old Derek Bentley — illiterate, epileptic, with a reading age assessed at around four and a half — was already restrained by police when his 16-year-old friend Christopher Craig shot and killed Police Constable Sidney Miles, 42, a husband and father. Craig, as a juvenile, was too young to hang. Bentley was not. On the strength of five disputed words — "Let him have it, Chris," which the defense argued meant hand over the gun, and which serious doubt suggests Bentley may never have said at all — and a trial widely judged unfair, Bentley was convicted under the joint-enterprise law of the time and executed in January 1953, against his own jury's recommendation for mercy. It took 45 years and a fight carried by three generations of his family before the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction in 1998 — and the state finally admitted it had hanged an innocent man.

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