British Executions

Trevor Elvin

Age: 21

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 10 Sep 1943

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Leeds

Method: hanging

Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C1258038

Trevor Elvin murdered his girlfriend Violet Wakefield 20 at a fair ground Between the Wellington Hotel and the Wire Trellis Hotel, Barnsley, Yorks on 4 May, 1943. He battered her to death.

see National Archives - MEPO 3/2255, PCOM 9/996, HO 144/21866, DPP 2/1127