Age: 19
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 1 Aug 1905
Crime Location: Field near St Michaels Church, Tenterden, Kent
Execution Place: Maidstone
Method: hanging
Executioner: Henry Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
Ferat Mohamed Benali was convicted of the murder of Hadjou Idder 40 and sentenced to death.
He battered him to death and cut his throat in a field near St Michael's church, Tenterden on 17 June 1905.
At his execution he threw no light on the motive for his crime but did say that he had given way to drink.
Ferat Benali and Hadjou Idder were Algerian pedlars and had been selling mats.
see National Archives - HO 144/791/130192
see Kent & Sussex Courier - Friday 04 August 1905
see Kent & Sussex Courier - Friday 14 July 1905
see Lichfield Mercury - Friday 23 June 1905
see Gloucester Journal - Saturday 05 August 1905
see Homicide 1905
