Louie Calvert - a murderer with a boot fetish.
Louie Calvert - a murderer with a boot fetish. At a minute to nine on the summer morning of Thursday, the 24th of June 1926, a small group of men silently formed up outside the condemned cell at the end of 'B' wing in the central area of Manchester's Strangeways prison. Upon a signal from the governor, Thomas Pierrepoint, Britain's "No. 1" hangman at that time, entered the cell at precisely 9.00 a.m. accompanied by two male warders. The two women warders, who had been looking after the prisoner, told her to stand up and Pierrepoint took her arms and quickly strapped her wrists behind her with a leather strap before leading the way out of the cell through a second door which had been uncovered by sliding away the wardrobe. The prisoner was led forward into the execution chamber by the two male warders and stopped by Pierrepoint on a chalked "T" precisely over the divide of the trapdoors. The two warders, standing on boards set across the trap, suppo...