News about William Joyce

Every execution sells at auction for £12,400. Hangman Albert Pierrepoint's pocket book describing every execution sells for £12,400

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 11, 2023
Albert Pierrepoint maintained his pocket book during his 25-year career as the execution of up to 400 convicted murderers, trespassers, and Nazi war criminals. He produced meticulous records of every unfortunate individual who died as a result of his noose, including Nazi collaborator William Joyce and serial murderers John Christie and John Haigh, who were known as the 'Acid Bath Murderer'. Ruth Ellis, who was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, was another notable figure in the book. In July 1955, she was hanged in Holloway Prison. He described their name, age, height, measurement, date, and place of execution, as well as other characteristics of their neck style, which were either 'good, strong, or thin.'

Was Britain's official hangman who dispatched 450 souls actually a psychopath who relished killing?

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 5, 2023
Antonio Mancini, 39, was about to pay the price for stabbing to death a gangster who had started a brawl in his Soho nightclub while standing on the gallows at London's Pentonville Prison, with his arms pinioned behind his back and a noose around his neck. The trapdoors under his feet would crack open within seconds, causing him to crash to death. But, on that chilly Friday morning in October 1941, he had remarkably relaxed as his ankles were tied together and the customary white hood was woven over his head. He smiled as if leaving a party.'Cheerio,' he said jokingly as if leaving a party. That was the last thing Mancini ever said, but even though his composure was impressive, it was more than matched by the man about to kill him, 36-year-old Albert Pierrepoint.

18 Jason Sudeikis Movies and Shows to Watch After "Ted Lasso" in the film "Ted Lasso," Jason Sudeikis was a teenager in the United States

www.popsugar.co.uk, March 15, 2023
Jason Sudeikis is certainly best known for his role in the acclaimed Apple TV+ series "Ted Lasso," but the actor had a good start in the entertainment industry before that. He started writing for "Saturday Night Live" in 2003, and he went on to work on the iconic live comedy show as both an actor and writer for the next ten years before his departure in 2013. Sudeikis appeared on several television shows, including "30 Rock" from 2007 to 2010 and "The Cleveland Show," which he appeared on from 2009 to 2013. Sudeikis shifted his attention to movies, including starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, "The Campaign" and "We're the Millers" in the early 2010s, despite his popularity on television. In addition to his comedic roles, the actor has appeared in films such as "Sleeping With Other People," "Colossal," and "Booksmart." Sudeikis cocreated, cowrote, and coproduced "Ted Lasso," a film that he also appears in.

Intruder with the crossbow has confessed to attempting to hurt the Queen

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 3, 2023
After being arrested outside her Berkshire home on December 25, 2021, Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to intending to hurt or alarm Her Majesty. A armed officer told an armed officer he was there to kill the Queen, but two Grenadier Guards soldiers told him this before he was calmly arrested. He had shot and killed 379 protesters and 1,200 injured by British forces in Punjab's Sikh holy city four days earlier, in which he made the same threat. The Queen had been celebrating Christmas in the private apartments at her main royal residence before she paid her respect to late husband Philip at 3 p.m., close to where he stood with the crossbow. The 21-year-old waved to the court and later pleaded guilty to three charges after appearing in the Central Criminal Court via video link from Broadmoor maximum security psychiatric hospital. William Joyce, the Nazi propagandist and traitor who broadcast to Britain during WWII, was the last one to be indicted under the more stringent medieval 1351 Treason Act.

Dennis Davis, one of Tobruk's last surviving Rats, has died at the age of 102

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 19, 2022
Dennis Davis, one of Australia's most renowned 'Rats of Tobruk,' has died aged 102, 81 years after his legendary garrison held German and Italian forces at bay in the North African port in WWII. Mr Davis, left and right) was moved to the ski unit in Syria and later served in New Guinea and Borneo after the siege of Tobruk (top right). Mr Davis leaves two children, seven grandchildren, and 20 great-grandchildren behind.

"I am here to murder the Queen," the 'crossbow intruder" at Windsor Castle

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 17, 2022
When he turned up at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day last year, crossbow-wielding Jaswant Singh Chail, 20, said, "I am here to kill the Queen." A police officer made the Chail look like someone from a vigilante film or 'dressed for Halloween,' by a police officer, according to a police officer. The Queen, her son and heir Prince Charles, his wife Camilla, and other relatives of close relatives were among the victims of the December 25 incident, before her salute to late husband Philip was broadcast to the nation. According to Westminster Magistrates' Court, a Chail from Southampton, Hampshire, told a security officer, 'I am here to murder the Queen,' before being handcuffed and arrested.