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Originally Posted by West Ender
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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I was going to ask about the "pub" thing .... I remember my grandad telling me he had a pub .... wonder what he called it? The "Drop Inn" would have been a good name
