OP-ED: A slippery path

Believing something to be true, simply does not make it true On the night of Sunday, November 2, 1952, two teenage boys, Derek Bentley (19) and Christopher Craig (16) attempted to break into the warehouse of the confectionery manufacturers Barlow and Parker in Tamworth Road, Croydon, South London. The pair had managed to clamber on to the flat roof of the building and were in the process of smashing the glass skylight in order to gain access to the warehouse below, when they were seen by a young girl living opposite.