British Executions

Johannes Josephus Cornelius Mommers

Age: 43

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 27 Jul 1926

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Pentonville

Method: hanging

Executioner: Robert Baxter

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4166427

Johannes Mommers murdered Augusta Viletta Pionbini 21 whose throat he cut at Sunnyside, Thundersley, Essex on 7 May 1926.

Johannes Mommers was a Dutch national who had served in the British Army who worked as a house painter. Augusta Pionbini was an Italian girl. Her younger sister said that Johannes Mommers and Augusta Pionbini were just friends.