John Martin Scripps [SEP] place of birth
given the death penalty. He is also one of the first Westerners to be executed in Singapore since independence, the first one being Johannes Van Damme.
Early life.
John Martin Scripps was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 9 December 1959 to Leonard and Jean Scripps, an East End lorry driver and a Fleet Street barmaid respectively. He travelled often in childhood, occasionally accompanied by his father, with whom he was very close. Leonard Scripps committed suicide when his son was nine. After his father's death,
granddaughter of James E. Scripps
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