Standing outside Winson Green Prison Reg Harcourt talks to Roger Moody about the campaign to save Simcox from the gallows.
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Story number - 6295. Christopher Simcox murdered his wife's sister in November 1963 and injuring two others. In 1948 he had also served time in prison for murdering a previous wife. He escaped hanging the first time because capital punishment was briefly suspended in the late 1940s. In 1964 Simcox was again reprieved because he was confined to a wheelchair due to injuries sustained in the November 1963 incident.