Age: 21
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Jul 1941
Crime Location: NAAFI Canteen, Holy Trinity Institute, Princes Street, Dorchester
Execution Place: Dorchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
David Jennings murdered Albert Edward Farley 65 by shooting him in the NAAFI Canteen, Holy Trinity Institute, Princes Street, Dorchester on 27 January 1941.
David Jennings had been out drinking and when he returned to his barracks he changed into his gym shoes and took his rifle and told his friends he was going out to commit a robbery.