Nineteen-year-old functionally illiterate Bentley was hanged in 1953 for his part in the murder of PC Sidney Miles, and was convicted partly on the basis of his statement to police, allegedly transcribed verbatim from a spoken monologue.
Nineteen-year-old Bentley was hanged in 1953 for his part in the murder of PC Sidney Miles. Bentley, who had a mental age of eleven and was functionally illiterate, was convicted partly on the basis of his statement to police, allegedly transcribed verbatim from a spoken monologue.