Age: 27 (67 after sentence)
Sex: male
Crime: murder (repeat offender)
Date Of Sentence: 12 Jul 1962 (for 40 years, 4 months, 13 days)
End Of Full Sentence: 25 Nov 2002
Place: Brixton, London
Source: find.galegroup.com
Bryan Davis murdered Anna Perviaz 28 at his home in Brixton and served 15 years in jail. In 1977 he was released on licence and in 1981 aged 48 he stabbed Betty Dodsworth 53 to death after she ended their relationship.
He was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years for Betty Dodsworth's killing.
Bryan Davis had been intimate with Anna Perviaz and had strangle her. The court heard that he intended to bury her under the floorboards. Her body was found 8 days after she had been killed after her child, who Bryan Davis had left on the steps at Westminster Hospital, was traced to her.
see A Calendar Of Murder, Criminal Homicide In England Since 1957, Terence Morris and Louis Blom-Cooper
see National Archives - CRIM 1/3930, DPP 2/3443
