"Let Him Have it, Chris"

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Even though there is extremely strong evidence that he hadn't fired the fatal shot (it was almost certainly a police marksman with a rifle), Parris was constrained from giving any evidence to that effect. The book, whilst miles better than Kennedy's, suffers from the same compulsion to create a martyr that we all have to accept at face value. Paget gives 5 reasons why the Home Secretary should not carry out the sentence, ranging from Bentley's youth, through his low intelligence and epilepsy, to the fact that there was a 'scintilla of doubt' about the conviction. The play, with an introduction by Miller, was included in a 1980 book Theatre in Education – Four Secondary School Programmes. It is possible that Lord Goddard may have been under pressure while summing up since much of the evidence was not directly relevant to Bentley's defence.

Derek Bentley entered Norbury Manor Secondary Modern School in 1944, after failing the eleven-plus examination. Lord Goddard forwarded the jury's recommendation of mercy, but added that he himself "could find no mitigating circumstances". Did Derek Bentley utter those fateful words "Let him have it Chris", or did the police "verbal" him with words copied from an earlier capital case?Niven Craig, despite being a bloodthirsty hood, takes an avuncular liking to Derek, and even gives him his own jacket. Sometimes I do thinks that there should be a lethal injection available in the UK, for those on life tariff who want it. Like the author, I too am sufficiently cynical, in view of all that has happened in this case, to expect the deposition of Claude Pain and a few other documents to have disappeared by then; Claude Pain's presence on the roof was never fully acknowledged.

His main argument is that comics and cinema had little effect on the behaviour of Craig and Bentley. Labour MPs Paget (Northampton) and Silverman (Nelson and Colne), argued vehemently in the House of Commons for the Home Secretary to commute the death sentence on Derek Bentley.He also dismisses most of his colleagues - they might have problems with and be cowed by the tyrants on the bench, but not even the most powerful judge is a match for E. Title Drop: Derek's arrest went From Bad to Worse (and got him accused of being a Cop Killer) because he yelled out to Craig "let him (the detective approaching you) have it!

This would require the prosecution to prove the absence of any attempt by Bentley to signal to Craig that he wanted Craig to surrender his weapons to the police. 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. 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. My gut feeling is not guilty, even if only because the greater villain in this case was not going to be hanged. The release of this film focused attention on the case once more, and Bentley eventually received a posthumous pardon.She sometimes seems to miss the relevance of facts - she dwells longer on irrelevant detail than on the more important parts of her life.