Age: 40
Sex: male
Crime: spying
Date Of Execution: 26 Jan 1943
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Albert Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Franciscus Johannes Winter was convicted of spying for the Nazi's.
he was a ships steward from Antwerp who had entered England as a refugee, however his story was not beleieved and when they searched him they found about £100 in various currencies on him. After a while he admitted that he had been sent by the nazis to spy on convoys and and been given invisible ink to write letters to safe addresses in neutral countries.
see Western Morning News - Wednesday 27 January 1943
see The encyclopedia Of Executions - John Eddleston
