British Executions

Walter Sharpe

Age: 20

Sex: male

Crime: murder

Date Of Execution: 30 Mar 1950

Crime Location:

Execution Place: Leeds

Method: hanging

Executioner: Stephen Wade

Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C4633094

Walter Sharpe and Gordon Lannen were convicted of the murder of Abraham Harry Levine 49 at 132 Albion Street, Leeds who was battered and shot. Abraham Levine died the next day.

They robbed Abraham Levine at his shop the Albion Watch Depot in Leeds around 10am on 16 November 1949.