Lord Haw-Haw

The last person to be convicted under the separate and more serious Treason Act of 1351 was William Joyce, a World War II Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw.

Most of the famous disseminators of disinformation during wartime, like Tokyo Rose or the English-speaking Nazi announcers known as Lord Haw-Haw, were people who had betrayed their own countries and gone over to the other side.

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Mr Pierrepoint, who followed his father's footsteps as a hangman, executed high-profile murderers including Ruth Ellis, John Christie and William Joyce, known as Lord Haw-Haw.

In 1945, Nazi radio propagandist William Joyce, known as “Lord Haw-Haw,” was convicted of treason and sentenced to death by a British court.