life in prison. He was the first and the only person in United Kingdom to be convicted under the War Crimes Act 1991. From a legal perspective this case is interesting, as it was also the first time that a British jury had travelled overseas to view the scene of a crime. In 2000, the House of Lords refused him permission to appeal. Sawoniuk died in Norwich Prison of natural causes in 2005, aged 84. Bibliography The Ticket Collector from Belarus - "An extraordinary and true story of the Holocaust and Britain's only war crimes trial - by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson - 2021 - Simon & Schuster (publishers) References External links Sawoniuk – a hidden life exposed (BBC) 1921 births 2005 deaths 20th-century British criminals People from Brest District People from Polesie Voivodeship British mass murderers British people convicted of war crimes British people convicted of murder Belarusian people convicted of murder Belarusian collaborators with Nazi Germany Holocaust perpetrators in Belarus Holocaust trials People convicted of murder by England and Wales Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by England and Wales Prisoners who died in England and Wales detention Nazis convicted of war crimes Nazis who died in prison custody Belarusian emigrants to England Ex post facto case law Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom