British Executions

Verney Asser

Age: 30

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 5 Mar 1918

Crime Location: Sutton Veny Camp, Warminster, Wiltshire

Execution Place: Shepton Mallet

Method: hanging

Executioner: John Ellis

Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/

Verney Asser was convicted of the murder of Joseph Harold Durkin 24 and sentenced to death.

He shot him at Sutton Veny Camp on 27 November 1917.

see National Archives - HO 144/1489/355227

see Sutton Veny

see Mansfield Reporter - Friday 18 January 1918

see Homicide 1918