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