Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett was the last public hanging in the United Kingdom.  He was convicted of the murder of Sarah Ann Hodgkinson, one of 12 victims of bombing in Clerkenwell, London.  Barrett was publicly hanged May 26, 1868.

Related pages
 Frances Kidder, the last woman to be publicly hanged in the United Kingdom
 Robert Smith (murderer), the last public hanging in Scotland and second-to-last public hanging in the United Kingdom

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Category:1841 births
Category:1868 deaths
Category:People executed by hanging