“It’s just in me,” Albert Pierrepoint confesses, the look on his face somewhere between shame and relief. “Always knew it would come out someday.” Pierrepoint, like his father before him, was an ...

Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England’s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold’s new drama ...

Albert Pierrepoint became Britain's most prolific killer clocking up more than 600 executions to his name ...