Zsiga Pankotia (or Pankotai) was a 31-year-old Hungarian-born

murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...

er who was hanged on Thursday, 29 June 1961 at Armley Gaol, Leeds, West Yorkshire, (now HM Prison Leeds).English & Welsh executions 1932 – 1964
/ref> 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 Capital murder was a statutory offence of aggravated murder in Great Britain, and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland, which was later adopted as a legal provision to define certain forms of aggravated murder in the United States. In som ...

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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Sheffield Forum - Has there ever been a prison in Sheffield? - Page 3
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pankotia, Zsiga 1930 births 1961 deaths People executed for murder Hungarian people executed abroad 20th-century executions by England and Wales 1961 murders in the United Kingdom