British Executions

David Miller Jennings

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.