LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Bentley hanging anniversary and family’s campaign

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

28 Jan 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:06:14

Description

Report on the 30th anniversary of 19-year-old Derek Bentley’s hanging in Wandsworth Prison for the murder of a policeman, and the family’s continuing campaign to get him a posthumous pardon. Includes interviews with Bentley’s sister Iris and her daughter Maria on plans to appeal to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the European Court of Human Rights. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Iris Bentley; Maria Bentley?

Keywords

Margaret Thatcher; Death penalty; Hanging; Prime ministers; European Court of Human Rights; Pardons (procedures); Derek Bentley; Anniversaries

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