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• Francis_Forsyth abstract "Francis Robert George Henry James 'Flossie’ Forsyth was a British criminal who became one of the youngest prisoners to be executed in a British prison in the 20th century. He was just 18 years old when he was hanged at Wandsworth Prison by Harry Allen (assisted by Royston Rickard) on November 10 1960 for the murder of Allan Jee on June 25 1960.One of his accomplices, 23-year-old Norman James ‘Flash’ Harris, was executed at Pentonville Prison on the same morning by Robert Leslie Stewart (assisted by H. F. Robinson).Forsyth, a road worker, and Harris, a driver, were part of a gang whch also included Christopher Louis Darby (aged 20, a coalman) and Terence Lutt (aged 17, a labourer). On the night of June 25 1960, they set upon 23-year-old Allan Jee on a footpath at the bottom of James Street, Hounslow, Middlesex, kicking him unconscious, robbing him of the money he had on him and leaving him bleeding from head injuries. Jee, who had been walking home after an evening with his fiancée, was about 20 yards from his home when he was attacked; he had become engaged on the same evening.Jee died from his injuries two days later in hospital. A witness, Anthony Cowell, who was standing at the other end of James Street, was able to give police a detailed description of four young men running from the scene of the crime; it was a friend of Forsyth's, Kevin Cullinan, who informed the police on July 17 1960 that Forsyth had been boasting about his part in the attack. Furthermore, he gave the police the names of three young men - Harris, Darby and Lutt - whom he had seen with Forsyth in a coffee bar on the night of the attack. The four young men were arrested two days later; in the course of the police investigation into the murder, traces of Jee’s blood were found on Forsyth’s ‘winkle-picker’ shoes.It became clear at the subsequent trial at the Old Bailey that Lutt had been the one to strike the first blow upon Jee but that the kicking had been administered by Forsyth. Only Darby claimed to have used no violence upon Jee; for that reason, the charge against him was reduced to one of non-capital murder.Both Forsyth and Harris were sentenced to death by Mister Justice Winn on September 26 1960 under the 1957 Homicide Act, which defined murder in the course of robbery as a capital crime. As a minor, Lutt was sentenced to be detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure, while Darby was sentenced to life imprisonment.The appeals of both Forsyth and Harris were dismissed in October 1960. Despite a petition for clemency containing around 3000 names and the opposition of such prominent names as The Earl of Harewood, Gilbert Harding, Kingsley Amis and J. B. Priestley, the petition was turned down on November 8 1960. The executions took place two days later.Forsyth – whose girlfriend Margaret Caitlin was expecting his child in January 1961 - was the last 18-year-old to be hanged in Britain (the last teenager to be executed in Britain - 19-year-old Anthony Miller - was hanged in Glasgow just over a month later). At the time of the murder, Forsyth was aged just eighteen years and two months. Only three other eighteen-year-olds were executed in Britain in the 20th century; the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 had fixed the minimum age for a prisoner to be hanged at 18 years.On the morning of Forsyth's execution, 20-year-old Victor Terry, a friend of Forsyth's, heard about the execution on his car radio. One hour later he shot dead a security guard at a bank in Worthing, West Sussex in the course of a robbery. Terry was to claim at his subsequent trial that he was possessed by the spirit of the American gangster 'Legs' Diamond. He was found guilty of capital murder and hanged at Wandsworth Prison on May 25 1961, on the same gallows upon which Forsyth had been executed just over six months earlier.".
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• Francis_Forsyth deathDate "1960-11-10".
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• Francis_Forsyth name "Francis Robert George Henry James Forsyth".
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