LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Bermuda after hangings

Genre

News report

TX Date

3 Dec 1977

Year of production

1977

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Duration

00:03:19

Description

Chris Lodge reports from Bermuda to unnamed studio reporter on situation following riots after hangings of Erskine Durrant Burrows (for the murder of former Governor Sir Richard Sharples and Police Commissioner George Duckett and supermarket executives) and Larry Tacklyn (supermarket killings). Night curfews imposed.

Contributors

Chris Lodge

Keywords

Death penalty; Violence; Homicide; Riots; Hanging; Bermuda; Larry Tacklyn; Erskine Burrows; Richard Sharples; George Duckett

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