He could have told them that Ruth Ellis was the sixteenth woman he had hanged, and that only the week before he had travelled to Holloway to hang the glamorous nightclub hostess, there had been another date in his diary to hang Leeds housewife Sarah Lloyd at Manchester’s Strangeways Gaol. With just 48 hours left to live, Mrs Lloyd, who had battered to death a cantankerous elderly neighbour following a quarrel, received word that her sentence had been commuted. Albert was angered at the attitude of the press. Just because one convict an attractive club hostess while the other a plain suburban housewife, he believed that both should have been worthy of the same treatment. Jamaican, Albert Lumelino, became another date in Albert’s diary that summer. Lumelino was awaiting execution in the condemned cell at Wandsworth, having committed murder during the course of a robbery at Folkestone. His execution was scheduled for 30 August, but, like Mrs Lloyd, a reprieve was issued two days before he was to die.
