The state Department of Environmental Conservation has said the money is still available for those items, but Commissioner Basil Seggos . After the subsequent broadcast of the BBC Play for Today adaptation of To Encourage the Others, directed by Alan Clarke and starring Charles Bolton, Haler sought to deny that he had given any specific estimate of the size of the bullet that killed Miles beyond being "of large calibre". Violent abuse and complaint poured in from the judiciary, still defending their former chief; the Times was boycotted, and Levin blackballed from membership of the lawyer-heavy Garrick Club. At 9am on 28 January 1953, Bentley was hanged at Wandsworth Prison, London, by Albert Pierrepoint, with Harry Allen assisting. She was the last woman in Britain to be executed. But this employment came to an end in March 1952, after the unfortunate Bentley injured his back. Mini Bio (1) Christopher Craig is a Scottish actor born and brought up in Edinburgh. Maxwell Fyfe then stresses that a reprieve would mean the Home Secretary is "intervening in the due process of the law". The 19-year-old was hanged in 1953 by Pierrepoint for his part in the murder of a policeman, during a bungled break-in to a warehouse.