Age: 19
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Feb 1921
Crime Location: Crumbles Beach, Eastbourne
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Thomas Gray and Jack Alfred Field were convicted of the murder of 17-year-old Irene Munro and sentenced to death.
They lured her onto Crumbles Beach, Eastbourne on 19 August 1920 where they attempted to rob her and when she resisted they attacked and killed her, and afterwards buried her in the sands. However, they left her feet sticking out of the ground and she was found early the next day by a boy who tripped over them.
see National Archives - HO 144/1690/408513, PCOM 8/52, MEPO 3/272, MEPO 3/273, MEPO 3/274, MEPO 3/275, MEPO 3/276, MEPO 3/277, MEPO 3/278, MEPO 3/279, MEPO 3/280, MEPO 3/281, DPP 1/56, COR/1/3/1140
see "Eastbourne Crime." Times [London, England] 5 May 1924: 11. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.
see Illustrated Police News - Thursday 26 August 1920
see Daily Record - Friday 17 December 1920
see Staffordshire Sentinel - Tuesday 18 January 1921
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 18 January 1921
see Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 11 January 1921
see Evening Herald (Dublin) - Tuesday 18 January 1921
see Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 19 December 1920, p4 (photos)
see National Library of Scotland
see Wikipedia
see Screen Online
see Homicide 1921
