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At around 8am on execution day, Albert Pierrepoint and his assistants entered the designated cell, bound their prisoner’s arms with a leather strap, and proceeded to the gallows. Having carefully calculated the length of the drop with sandbags the previous evening, the executioner offered his charge a final swig of brandy and an opportunity to express any last words, then placed a white hood over their head and escorted them to a spot marked ‘T’ above a trapdoor, where a noose was placed around their neck. Pierrepoint pulled a large lever, opening the trapdoor and severing the spinal cord.
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Egypt’s public prosecutor Hamada al-Sawy has cleared four Egyptian security officials of involvement in the murder of former Cambridge doctorate student Giulio Regeni, as of yesterday (30/12).
The security officials – Tariq Saber, Athar Kamel Mohamed Ibrahim, Capt Uhsam Helmi and Maj Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif – were indicted by Italian prosecutors earlier this month for alleged responsibility in the abduction, torture and murder of Regeni.
Regeni had moved to Cairo in September 2015 to conduct research for a doctoral thesis on independent trade unions, but disappeared on 25th January 2016, and was subsequently found dead nine days later on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital, with his body showing “signs of torture” according to state paper