Last man executed at Shrewsbury Prison 59 years ago

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  • Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
  • February 9th 2020 is exactly 59 years since the last man (George Riley) was executed at Shrewsbury Prison. Joel (our governor) recently met someone who had a very strange encounter with George Riley shortly before he was arrest for murder.

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  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 2 роки тому +16

    Unfortunately due to echo you cannot be heard while Johnny one note tinkles on the piano learning his scales.

  • @fred5477
    @fred5477 3 роки тому +10

    Lesson learned. If you want to murder your neighbor, do it in a uniform to the sound of trumpets and you'll retire with a pension.

  • @paulcampbell6316
    @paulcampbell6316 4 місяці тому +2

    The Narcissist bully went too far!

  • @gailcrowe727
    @gailcrowe727 2 роки тому +3

    Trevor Howard. You’re absolutely correct and I have it on good authority. It really irritates me when people say
    ShrOwsbury.

  • @josephcroft4268
    @josephcroft4268 2 роки тому +7

    Harry Allen was the Hangman not a warden

  • @Braixie
    @Braixie 3 роки тому +13

    My father told me that I am actually related to George Riley, he would have been my great uncle

    • @shannyshark
      @shannyshark 3 роки тому +1

      Do you know where he rests? I would like to pay my respects. I don't believe he was guilty.

    • @Charqii
      @Charqii 3 роки тому

      I call bull shit

    • @SirD83
      @SirD83 3 роки тому +3

      @@shannyshark it’s believed his body was cremated around 1978 and ashes scattered in the unknown location.

    • @shannyshark
      @shannyshark 3 роки тому +2

      @@SirD83 From what I learnt he is somewhere in Shrewsbury cemetery, last I knew the family were looking for his relatives to give him a headstone. I hope that they manage this and George can be at peace.

  • @mrmods7912
    @mrmods7912 7 місяців тому +2

    The condemned cell and execution chamber where nothing like this in the 1960s... Total cash grab for tourism

  • @deanbembridge8640
    @deanbembridge8640 3 роки тому +6

    Very interesting 👍

  • @elephantcompany6061
    @elephantcompany6061 2 роки тому +3

    The first 4 min is basically pointless banter.

  • @jameretief8327
    @jameretief8327 3 роки тому +16

    Well we all know the end of capital punishment in Britain stopped the murder rate cold and people who committed those crimes were scared stiff of at the most 5 years in a prison and the violent crime in England went tits up.......and then I woke up.

    • @woowah32
      @woowah32 3 роки тому +2

      @TheRenaissanceman65 This is true, it’s been proven it’s not a deterrent. Not to mention hugely hypercritical.

    • @alanmarr3323
      @alanmarr3323 2 роки тому

      @TheRenaissanceman65 Rubbish go to countries with Sharia law stealing is much less . Chopping people's hands off works!

    • @alanmarr3323
      @alanmarr3323 2 роки тому

      @TheRenaissanceman65 Saves the tax payer money!

    • @alanmarr3323
      @alanmarr3323 2 роки тому

      @TheRenaissanceman65 I don't like the heat l

    • @woowah32
      @woowah32 2 роки тому

      @Donnell Okafor That’s the one…forever grateful for grammar police.👍🏻

  • @kevinpiacente3456
    @kevinpiacente3456 3 роки тому +11

    Amazing. Couple weeks later he was dead.
    Here in America. 35 years later wr finally kill the inmate

    • @olliedwards8069
      @olliedwards8069 3 роки тому

      How is it amazing?

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому +1

      that is because of a backlog of convicts in the appeal courts ! but dont let the turth get in away with america hating

    • @pieterveenders9793
      @pieterveenders9793 3 роки тому +1

      @@geezerp1982 What the fuck does that have to do with america hating, you think that country is perfect or something, and hence anyone who questions it is thus hating it?

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому

      @@pieterveenders9793 where did i say that the US was perfect you total government loving sheep

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому

      @TheRenaissanceman65 wrong there was no set number appeals laid down in law appeals are can only made on a point of law etc
      not always 6 weeks case in point The Queen vs Manuel - sentenced on the 29th may 1958 - executed in 11th July

  • @TheBroadcastNinja
    @TheBroadcastNinja 3 роки тому +1

    Good to see Delboy’s still about.....

  • @LeedsUnitedJohn
    @LeedsUnitedJohn 3 роки тому +16

    I don't think he should have said that George was in tears before being hanged. The whole process should have remain secret as that was the custom at that time.

    • @SirD83
      @SirD83 3 роки тому +3

      Lots was kept secret until the home office declassified it many years after. I believe it was Harry Allen whom gave the details of crying.

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому +4

      no it shouldnt ! executions are done on behalf of the people

    • @geezerp1982
      @geezerp1982 3 роки тому +2

      @@SirD83 it was never a state secret to begain with !

    • @SirD83
      @SirD83 3 роки тому +9

      It was all under the official secrets act.
      Executioners had to sign this each and every time they carried out the job.
      So it was a secret, clue in the name
      “ official secrets act“.

    • @LeedsUnitedJohn
      @LeedsUnitedJohn 3 роки тому +3

      @@geezerp1982 Not on my behalf

  • @StewartGately
    @StewartGately 2 місяці тому +1

    I think they hung an innocent man.

  • @_jess_erin_
    @_jess_erin_ 3 роки тому +1

    😱😱

  • @p3t3r826
    @p3t3r826 3 роки тому +2

    "He was in tears"
    🙇🙇🙇

    • @neilsaunders9309
      @neilsaunders9309 2 роки тому

      You've obviously never been close to death yourself.

  • @trevorhoward7682
    @trevorhoward7682 2 роки тому +2

    There is no "O" in Shrewsbury. There is no Common ShrOw or Pygmy ShrOw.

    • @ShrewsburyPrison
      @ShrewsburyPrison  2 роки тому +1

      'Shrow' is the historically and factually correct way to pronounce Shrewsbury :-)

    • @stevetaylor7403
      @stevetaylor7403 2 роки тому

      Some say ‘shrow’, some say ‘shrew’. I take it you pronounce ‘women’ as ‘wimmin’ although there’s no ‘i’ in it.

    • @WO2Royalengineersretired
      @WO2Royalengineersretired Рік тому +2

      So who put the swear word in Scunthorpe?

    • @trevorhoward7682
      @trevorhoward7682 Рік тому

      @@WO2Royalengineersretired Should I now label myself "L/Cplroyalengineers"?

    • @WO2Royalengineersretired
      @WO2Royalengineersretired Рік тому +1

      @@trevorhoward7682 why not ?
      Or TrevorHowardVCDCM

  • @augggie
    @augggie 3 роки тому +18

    This needs to be reinstated in every county in the world, at least the States

    • @pieterveenders9793
      @pieterveenders9793 3 роки тому +6

      You do realise that numerous countries have sent innocent men and women to the gallows/firing squad/electric chair/lethal injection gurny? The whole reason the death penalty was abolished in the UK was because several innocent people had been sent to the gallows.... I know of several people who have received life sentences in the Netherlands the past couple of decades who had eventually overturned many years later. Had we had a death penalty in this country those people would have received it, and quite likely been executed before the justice system realised their mistakes. No justice system is perfect, and so long as no justice system is perfect the death penalty should never be allowed.

    • @nicolasrimu1631
      @nicolasrimu1631 3 роки тому

      @@pieterveenders9793 You forgot the guillotine !

    • @pieterveenders9793
      @pieterveenders9793 3 роки тому +1

      @@nicolasrimu1631 And indeed the guillotine and garotte!

    • @woowah32
      @woowah32 3 роки тому +3

      It really doesn’t. It’s hugely hypocritical to murder someone as a punishment for murder. Fascinating stuff though, I’ve read up so much on Britain’s hangmen .

    • @ryankenyon5010
      @ryankenyon5010 2 роки тому

      Go to hell.

  • @trevorhoward7682
    @trevorhoward7682 2 роки тому +1

    Oh dear. This pair are talking about "warders" instead of prison officers. Perhaps they should talk of "gaolers" or "turnkeys".

    • @stevetaylor7403
      @stevetaylor7403 2 роки тому +1

      They were warders back then. Convention is to use the terms for names of people/places as they were at the time spoken about.
      For example, General Montgomery led the land forces on D-Day although he was promoted to Field Marshall at the break-out.

    • @allenjenkins7947
      @allenjenkins7947 2 роки тому

      Warder is correct. Warden is the American term for a prison governor.

    • @GreatBarrWolf
      @GreatBarrWolf Рік тому

      ​@@allenjenkins7947
      The correct term you're all looking for is "screw"

  • @joannedarling6077
    @joannedarling6077 2 роки тому +2

    I've visited this prison as a vistors many times , as I was coming down them very stairs ,someone was behind me ,laughing n touching my shoulders , but no one was there,..... .I also felt someone's presence in the hanging room, n in the morge...
    Its highly haunted....

    • @sageeffle4065
      @sageeffle4065 2 роки тому +1

      Did you go in the most haunted cell c203?

    • @joannedarling6077
      @joannedarling6077 2 роки тому +1

      @@sageeffle4065 yes I did the hanging room is also haunted n the main landing has some spirits ,it was great fun ,,

    • @joannedarling6077
      @joannedarling6077 2 роки тому

      @Donnell Okafor its noted to be one of most haunted places in shrewsbury actually ,u clearly dont believe in spirits

  • @martincook318
    @martincook318 3 роки тому +10

    No George Riley should have got a life Sentence not death as one killing does not justify another and when I say life I Mean a full life Sentence as I've been against the Death Penalty for year's and what made Me a lifelong Ablonishonist was Derick Bentley and look how long that tuck into clearing his name 45 year's and thank God that we no longer have Hangings in this Country

    • @Montblanc1986
      @Montblanc1986 2 роки тому

      George was just a tough guy, with the proper parenting he might have made better choices. Sounds like he could have been rehabilitated since he felt remorse at the end. Most killers these days like the ones in Chicago should meet a swift end.

    • @stevetaylor7403
      @stevetaylor7403 2 роки тому

      WTF is ‘ablonishonist’. Think you mean ‘abolitionist’. It’s in the dictionary.

    • @stevetaylor7403
      @stevetaylor7403 2 роки тому

      No. You’re wrong. His conviction wasn’t quashed. He was given a posthumous pardon. He was guilty of constructive homicide/joint enterprise.
      What convicted him was the disputed “let him have it, Chris’. The gun or the bullet?
      There was no disputing Craig’s guilt. He was seen to fire the fatal shot. His youth saved him from the gallows.

    • @DarrenMalin
      @DarrenMalin Рік тому

      no now killers get a few years , a new identity and a free council house.