Age: 40
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 10 Sep 1942
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Harold Oswald Merry murdered his girlfriend Joyce Dixon 27 at Turves Green, Northfield, Birmingham on 29 March 1942. She was found dead in a pool having been drowned and strangled.
see Aberdeen Journal - Saturday 18 July 1942
