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Peter Anthony Allen

Peter Anthony Allen was 21 years old when on 13 August 1964 he became one of the two last people in Great Britain to be executed, when he was hanged for the murder the previous 7 April of John Alan West. See article on West for the story of the murder and trial and execution.

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