Age: 33
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 16 Jul 1955
Crime Location: Driveway of Birchen Bower Farm, Willslock, near Uttoxeter
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Albert Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
Frederick Arthur Cross murdered Donald Haywood Lainton 28 who he stabbed to death in the driveway of Birchen Bower Farm, Willslock, near Uttoxeter on 25 February 1955.
Frederick Cross had been living in a hut at a disused RAF station in Hixon after his wife had left him. He said that he wanted to die and had tried to take rat poison but said he didnt have the courage.
see Encyclopedia of Executions by John J Eddleston - page 871
see National Archives - PCOM 9/2031, ASSI 89/25, ASSI 6/109, DPP 2/2416
