Last Brit sentenced to hanging has died and denied killing sister until the end
dailyrecord.co.ukThe last Brit to face being hanged has died - having protested his innocence until the end. Alan Norton, 79, was sentenced to death by hanging in 1966, after his 10-year-old sister, Joy, was found stabbed to death a year before, in 1965.
He always denied the murder and in 1986, while he was waiting for his date to hang, capital punishment was abolished on the Channel Island of Jersey so his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and Norton ended up serving more than 30 years in prison, reports The Mirror.
Alan's little sister, Joy, was found in a field on the Channel Island with multiple stab wounds and had been sexually assaulted.
Alan says the crime was pinned on him by the local police force and believes the dress that his sister wore at the time could hold clues to who her murderer is.
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