Albert Pierrepoint killed 17 people in one day, and on another took 13 lives before lunch.
A pub landlord killed 450 people after telling his teachers that he hoped to kill people when he grew up. Albert Pierrepoint followed in his father's footsteps as a government hangman.
Born in West Yorkshire, Albert and his mother moved to Oldham when he was young, and he got his first job ages 12, as a piecer at a textile mill in Failsworth, Greater Manchester. The siblings were prolific hangmen in the early twentieth century, but both were eventually removed from the list amid concerns over their fitness for the role - in each case following allegations they had turned up for work after a drink.
He was 26 by the time he went into the profession, after stints as a drayman and an interview at Strangeways. And, by the time he was 35, he was England's principal hangman. By the time Pierrepoint’s name went up above the door of The Struggler he was well-known for his work executing Nazi war criminals.
Other killers whose life came to an end with Albert's noose around their necks include John Haigh, the Acid Bath Murderer and Margaret Allen, a bus conductor from Rawtenstall. One night Tish - whose real name was James Corbitt - left the pub and did something which he had been brooding on for a year. In a hotel room in Ashton-under-Lyne, Corbitt strangled Eliza Wood, his some-time girlfriend, to death in August 1950.
In 1956, Pierrepoint was adjusting to finally giving up the lucrative, part-time role which he had held for a quarter-century. It was a row over fees which led him to hand in his notice.
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