Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Dec 1957
Crime Location: 21 Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, Birmingham
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Harry Allen
Source: http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupNam
Dennis Howard murdered David Alan Keasey 21 who he shot at 21 Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, Birmingham on 17 May 1957.
Dennis Howard was a gun fanatic and had a large collection. On 17 May 1957 he took a Mauser automatic to the clothes shop of David Keasey and asked to try on a sweater. When David Keasey brought the sweater for him Dennis Howard pulled out his gun, however David Keasey grabbed the gun and there was a struggle during which the gun went off.
see The Encyclopedia of Executions - John Eddleston
see "News in Brief." Times [London, England] 5 Dec. 1957: 6. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 May 2016.
see National Archives - ASSI 6/151, ASSI 89/51
