Crime and Punishment in Britain - Key Individuals
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Who was the first criminal to be convicted using DNA evidence?
Colin Pitchfork
Who led the gunpowder plot?
Robert Catesby
Who was the founder of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee (they were a local builder)?
George Lusk
Who were the two founders of the Hawkhurst gang?
Arthur Gray and Thomas Kingsmill
Who was Matthew Hopkins' accomplice?
John Stearne
What was the title that Matthew Hopkins gave himself?
Witchfinder General
Who designed Pentonville Prison?
Joshua Jebb
Russian Jews fled Russia to Whitechapel after the death of which more tolerant Tsar?
Tsar Alexander II
Who took over from commissioner Edmund Henderson in 1886?
Charles Warren
Who led a rebellion in the north of England in 1069?
Edgar the Aethling
Who was the famous thief-taker who operated in London in the 1720s?
Jonathan Wild
Which home secretary legalized homosexuality in 1967?
Roy Jenkins
Who did Ruth Ellis kill?
David Blakely
Who was the last person to be publicly hanged?
Michael Barrett
Which MP was robbed and garroted in 1862?
James Pilkington
Who originally founded the Bow Street Runners?
Henry Fielding