Harold Wilkins (murderer)

Harold Haywood Wilkins (5 March 1916 – 29 December 1999)[1] was the last juvenile to be sentenced to the death penalty in the United Kingdom, on 17 November 1932 [2] at the age of 16 though his sentence was later commuted due to his age.[3] Wilkins was convicted of the "sexually related murder" of Ethel Corey.[4]

The execution of those under the age of 16 had been banned by the Children Act 1908. The age was further raised to 18 in the year after Wilkins' conviction, under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.

References
  1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  2. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10887331. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Lorraine Radford (5 April 2012). Rethinking Children, Violence and Safeguarding. A&C Black. pp. 19–. ISBN 978-1-84706-558-2.
  4. Bourke, Fionnuala (10 April 2015). "Teenager hanged at Birmingham Prison - one of four youngest prisoners executed last century". birminghammail.co.uk.
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