British Executions

Oswald Augustus Grey

Age: 20

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 20 Nov 1962

Crime Location: 176 Lea Bank Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Execution Place:

Method: hanging

Executioner: Harry Allen

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Thomas_Bates

Oswald Augustus Grey murdered Thomas Arthur Bates during a robbery at his newsagents shop. Grey made his getaway on a number 8 bus.

Grey was picked up 4 days later in relation to the theft of some guns and was put in an identity parade where Cecilia Gibbs identified him as the man she saw at the shop. Four other women testified that  he was not the man seen at the shop.

see Birmingham Mail

see National Archives - DPP 2/3485, ASSI 13/533