Age: 32
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 7 Feb 1940
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Peter Barnes and James Richards murdered Elsie Ansell 21, Gwilym Rowland 50, John Corbett Arnott 15, James Clay 81 and Rex Gentle 30 by bombing them in Broadgate, Coventry on 25 August 1939.
