No pardon for Derek Bentley
- Title
- No pardon for Derek Bentley
- Genre
- Press conference
- TX Date
- 2 Oct 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:00:29
- Description
- Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke rejects calls for a posthumous pardon for Derek Bentley, saying that the jury had evidence to support the conviction. Bentley was hanged forty years ago for murdering a police officer.
- Contributors
- Kenneth Clarke
- Keywords
- Government; Crime; Death penalty; Homicide; Trials; Criminal justice system; Pardons (procedures); Derek Bentley
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LBC/IRN, "No pardon for Derek Bentley". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0005300211009 (Accessed 19 Jun 2025)