The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston
James Hanratty
Season 1 Episode 2 of 2
Part two of two. The actor retraces the extraordinary twists-and-turns of the case of James Hanratty, and the evidence which put Hanratty's neck in the hangman's noose in April 1962 - one of the last men to suffer the fate in Britain. The event helped launch a concerted campaign to end capital punishment in the UK
The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston airs on Sky History at 10:00 PM, Friday 27 December. (Subtitles.)
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