Question

What happened after the death of Derek Bentley?
What did his family do?
How did it alter the law?
How did Derek's sentence change and when?
How long did it take?
What happened to Christopher Craig, what did he think of the hanging?

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Answer 1

Answer:

Derek Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was an English man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman, whose death occurred in the course of a burglary attempt. At the time, Christopher Craig, then aged 16, a friend and accomplice of Bentley, was accused of the murder.

Derek Bentley

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Born

Derek William Bentley

30 June 1933

Southwark, London, England

Died

28 January 1953 (aged 19)

Wandsworth Prison, London, England

Cause of death

Execution by hanging

Resting place

Wandsworth Prison Cemetery

Reburied Croydon Cemetery (1966)

Nationality

British

Known for

Wrongful conviction and execution

Criminal status

Posthumous pardon (1993)

Conviction overturned (1998)

Conviction(s)

Guilty

Criminal charge

Joint enterprise to murder

Penalty

Death by hanging

Partner(s)

Christopher Craig

Bentley was convicted as a party to murder, by the English law principle of common purpose, "joint enterprise". The jury at the trial found Bentley guilty based on the prosecution's interpretation of the ambiguous phrase "Let him have it" (Bentley's alleged exhortation to Craig), after the judge, Lord Chief Justice Goddard, had described Bentley as "mentally aiding the murder of Police Constable Sidney Miles". Goddard sentenced Bentley to be hanged: at the time, no other sentence was possible because of the conditions of the crime.

The Bentley case became a cause célèbre and led to a 45-year-long campaign to win Derek Bentley a posthumous pardon, which was granted in 1993, and then a further campaign for the quashing of his murder conviction, which occurred in 1998. please mark me as brainliest answer