Found innocent of a crime 29 years after his death: Derek Bentley

Derek Bentley, died 28 January 1953, age 19, in Wandsworth Prison, London. A man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman (PC Miles), whose death occurred in the course of a burglary attempt on top of the roof of a warehouse. At the time, Christopher Craig, then aged 16, a friend and accomplice of Bentley, was accused of the actual murder, but was too young to be tried. Meaning Derek never actually pulled the trigger, not even the Spanish saying La ley del Talion “ojo por ojo, diente por diente” , can then defend his death, as the…