Zsiga Pankotai
Hungarian murderer
About Zsiga Pankotai
Lived 1930 – 1961 (aged 30–31).
Zsiga Pankotai (1930 – 29 June 1961) was a 31-year-old Hungarian-born British man who was hanged for murder on Thursday 29 June 1961 at Armley Gaol, Leeds, West Yorkshire (now HM Prison Leeds). He was hanged by Harry Allen for the murder of Jack Eli Myers in a house burglary in the city's affluent Roundhay district. Under the Homicide Act 1957, murder during the course or furtherance of theft was considered capital murder and the sentence in the event of conviction was one of death. He was the last man to be hanged at Armley Gaol.
Pankotia was tried, convicted and sentenced at Leeds Assizes (then seated at Leeds Town Hall). The hanging was the first in Leeds since 1959.
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Who was Zsiga Pankotai?
Hungarian murderer
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Zsiga Pankotai was born in 1930.
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Zsiga Pankotai died on 29 June 1961.
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