When was the English criminal on which Bronson was based born?
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Bronson (film) Bronson is a 2008 British fictionalized biographical crime film co-written and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Tom Hardy. The film follows the life of notorious prisoner Michael Gordon Peterson, who was renamed Charles Bronson by his fight promoter. Born into a respectable middle-class family, Peterson would nevertheless become one of the United Kingdom's most dangerous criminals, and is known for having spent almost his entire adult life in solitary confinement. "Bronson" is narrated with humour, blurring the line between comedy and horror.
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Charles Salvador Charles Arthur "Charlie" Salvador (born Michael Gordon Peterson also known as Charles Bronson; 6 December 1952) is an English criminal who is often referred to in the British press as the "most violent prisoner in Britain" and "Britain's most notorious prisoner". He has spent periods detained in the Rampton, Broadmoor and Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospitals.
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Derek Bentley case Derek William Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was an English man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman, which was committed in the course of a burglary attempt. The murder was said at the time to have been committed by a friend and accomplice of Bentley's, Christopher Craig, then aged 16, but whether he had fired the fatal shot was later called into question. Bentley was convicted as a party to murder, by the English law principle of common purpose, "joint enterprise". The jury at the trial found Bentley guilty based on the prosecution's interpretation of the ambiguous phrase "Let him have it" (Bentley's alleged instruction to Craig), after the judge, Lord Chief Justice Goddard, had described Bentley as "mentally aiding the murder of Police Constable Sidney Miles". Goddard then sentenced Bentley to death: at the time, no other sentence was possible.
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Frankie Fraser Frank Davidson "Frankie" Fraser, better known as "Mad" Frankie Fraser (13 December 1923 – 26 November 2014), was an English gangster and criminal who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offences.
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Colin Dexter Norman Colin Dexter, OBE (29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) was an English crime writer known for his "Inspector Morse" series of novels, which were written between 1975 and 1999 and adapted as an ITV television series, "Inspector Morse", from 1987 to 2000. His characters have spawned a sequel series, "Lewis", and a prequel series, "Endeavour".
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Robert Fabian Robert Honey Fabian (31 January 1901 – 14 June 1978) was an English police officer, who rose to the rank of Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police. After retirement from the force, he worked as crime writer. His work was dramatised in the BBC drama series, "Fabian of the Yard", based on his book of the same name (in reference to New Scotland Yard). Each episode ended with an epilogue in which Fabian described the real-life case on which the preceding story had been based. He subsequently wrote a somewhat salacious but revelatory account of Soho's vice trade in "London After Dark"..
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Edmund Robinson Edmund Robinson was an English ten-year-old boy from Wheatley Lane, Lancashire, who sparked a witch-hunt.
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Nicola Edgington Nicola Edgington (born 1980) is an English woman convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility, attempted murder and murder.
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Murder of Richard Everitt On 13 August 1994, 15-year-old Richard Everitt was stabbed to death in London in a racially motivated attack. Everitt's neighbourhood, Somers Town, had been the site of ethnic tensions, and although he was not involved in gangs, he was murdered by a gang of British Bangladeshis who were seeking revenge on another White British boy.
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Tom Butcher Thomas "Tom" Alfred Butcher (born 29 June 1963 in Stamford) is an English actor.
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Harry Jackson (criminal) Harry Jackson (c. 1861-?) was the first man to be convicted in the United Kingdom via fingerprint evidence.
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Joseph Burns (murderer) Joseph Burns (c. 1806 – 17 June 1848) was a New Zealand murderer, born in Liverpool, England. He was the first European in New Zealand to be executed for a capital crime. He was hanged on 17 June 1848 in Auckland.
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Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (October 1794 – 17 August 1847) was an English artist, author and journalist who is widely believed to have been a serial killer and multiple poisoner. He was transported to the Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) for forgery, where he became a portraitist for Hobart's elite.
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Charles Robert Broberg Charles Robert Broberg (22 May 1870–20 November 1937) was a New Zealand policeman . He was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand on 22 May 1870.
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Albert Pierrepoint Albert Pierrepoint ( ; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was a long-serving hangman in England. He executed at least 400 people, including William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") and John Amery. In Germany and Austria, after the Second World War, he executed some 200 people who had been convicted of war crimes. In England, Pierrepoint hanged Timothy Evans for a crime committed by his neighbour John Christie, who was also hanged by Pierrepoint.
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James Burge Charles George James Burge, Q.C. (8 October 1906 – 6 September 1990 in London, England) was an English criminal law barrister, remembered for his defence of Stephen Ward in the Profumo Affair in 1963. He is also remembered as John Mortimer's original inspiration for the fictional barrister Horace Rumpole in "Rumpole of the Bailey".
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Mickey Green Mickey Green (born 1942) is an English gangster and drug lord who has also held Irish nationality. A convicted armed robber he has allegedly been one of Britain's leading drug dealers for many years and is said to be worth at least £75 million.
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Jack Comer Jack "Spot" Comer (12 April 1912 – 12 March 1996) was an English gangster.
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Dale Cregan Dale Christopher Cregan (born 6 June 1983) is an English convicted drug-dealer and murderer who was sentenced to a whole life order in prison for four counts of murder (including the killing of two police officers) and three separate counts of attempted murder, meaning that he will never be released from prison.
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Bruce Reynolds Bruce Richard Reynolds (7 September 1931 – 28 February 2013) was an English criminal, who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. At the time it was Britain's largest robbery, netting , equivalent to £ million today. Reynolds spent five years on the run before being sentenced to 25 years in 1969. He was released in 1978. He wrote three books and performed with the band Alabama 3, for whom his son, Nick, plays.
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Tilly Devine Matilda "Tilly" Mary Devine (née Twiss) (8 September 190024 November 1970), was an English Australian organised crime boss in Sydney. She was involved in a wide range of activities, including sly-grog and razor gangs, and prostitution.
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Lenny McLean Leonard John McLean (9 April 1949 – 28 July 1998), also known as "The Guv'nor," was an English boxer, bouncer, criminal and prisoner, author, businessman, bodyguard, enforcer, weightlifter, television presenter and actor, and has been referred to as "the hardest man in Britain".