DAILY STAR
He was the celebrity executioner who hanged serial killers and Nazis before going home to pull pints in his pub – and now more of his chilling kit has gone up for auction
Albert Pierrepoint oversaw 600 people on the gallows during a grisly 25-year career, with items such as his cloth execution hoods now going under the hammer.
It’s not the first time his belongings have come up for sale – in 2019 a notebook he’d used to list those whose lives he’d ended, along with their belongings, including his own “death mask”, sold for £20,000.
Born in Yorkshire in 1905, Pierrepoint’s father and uncle were both hangmen and as a child he wrote: “When I leave school I should like to be the Official Executioner.”
