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West Ender · 27-08-2008, 18:53

I thought the play was very good but Timothy Spall made Pierrepoint a lot more "dramatic" than he really was. He treated the job as just that - a job - and, by all accounts I've read about him, he was quite a cheerful sort of bloke. As far as I know the story of him hanging a friend was made up. It never happened.

I first heard of him around the time of the Bentley and Ellis hangings, when I was 10 or 11, so about 1953/54. I remember my dad telling me he had a pub in Preston and I think there were a few articles in the Press about him.

No, he wasn't a ruthless killer. He did a job that few people would or could do and he did it as humanely as possible.

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West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 192	Re: Peirrepoint I thought the play was very good but Timothy Spall made Pierrepoint a lot more "dramatic" than he really was. He treated the job as just that - a job - and, by all accounts I've read about him, he was quite a cheerful sort of bloke. As far as I know the story of him hanging a friend was made up. It never happened. I first heard of him around the time of the Bentley and Ellis hangings, when I was 10 or 11, so about 1953/54. I remember my dad telling me he had a pub in Preston and I think there were a few articles in the Press about him. No, he wasn't a ruthless killer. He did a job that few people would or could do and he did it as humanely as possible. __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.