Gwynne Evans 23 year old also known as Ginger or Sandy because of the colour of his hair but real name John Robson Walby; Gwynne was short in stature; His friend 21 year old Peter Anthony Allen in contrast was 6ft 2inches tall but a bit slow in the brain department according to some that knew him. Allen was married to Mary who was 21 years old and they hasd two children but Mary was also in a relationship with Evans. Like most young struggling couples at the time (1964) money was not plentiful and Allen and his wife needed a hundred pounds to cover rates due on their Clarandon street property and a fine that was outstanding. Allan knew a man named John West also known as Jack who had worked with him at a company, Lakeside laundryat some time and decided to visit West and ask him for money. On the evening of Monday 6th April 1964 …show more content…
After three and half hours of deliberating , the jury of nine men and three women found both men guilty of capital murder. The crime was considered to be capital murder under the 1957 Homicide act. (murder committed in the course of a robbery) which if convicted carried a mandatory Death sentence. On Thursday the 13th of August 1964 at 8.00 AM, Peter Allen was hanged at Walton prison, Liverpool by hangman Robert Leslie Stewart while Evens was hanged at the same moment in Strangeways prison, Manchester by hangman Harry Allen (no relation to Peter Allen) Peter Allen had reportedly injured himself throwing himself against a glass panel during the last visit by his wife the previous afternoon cutting his wrist. He is reported to have said "Jesus" as he saw the dangling hanging noose over the gallows' trap