We are introduced to the characters of Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, who were very different people and liked to do different things, for e.g.: Christopher takes guns into school, and Derek loves music. Derek got epilepsy young because of an accident that happened during the world war. in the first scenes of the movie it shows Derek being bombed and buried under a lot of bricks which had hit his head on the bricks which caused him damage to the brain and caused him to have epilepsy.
             Christopher Craig on the other hand was the local gangster and terrorized everyone in it, Craig wanted revenge on the police for locking up his brother, that is what caused him to start shooting and killing other police men like pc miles, and shooting Fairfax in the arm.
             I think that peter medak wanted to make this film so that people can get there own opinion and show the true story of what happened or maybe he believes that Bentley is innocent and shouldn't of been hanged and made it so that other people would feel sorry for him and feel the same way as medak would and take his side and to make people feel sorry for him .This story is controversial because many people have different feelings and opinions to everything and some night think that the penalty that was set on Derek was harsh but others might think that it was fair .
             Derek Bentley had a very difficult childhood because of him having epilepsy he couldn't really do much but when he grew a bit older about 13 he became a bit mischievous and got sent to a school called Kingswood approved school. in 1951 Derek got released early for low intelligence and as soon as he got home he did not go out for a year because he was too scared .but his sister iris convinced him to get out because he loved music and he wanted to buy the record of the song that he loved so much after that his confidence grew and he liked to take his dogs for walks and that is when he met gangster Christophe...