James Inglis ( – 8 May 1951) was a Scottish man executed for murder, at the age of 29.

Having confessed to strangling Alice Morgan, a 50-year-old woman who was working as a prostitute in Kingston upon Hull on 1 February 1951 after a quarrel over payment, Inglis opted to plead insanity at his trial. The jury did not believe his version of events, and on 20 April he was sentenced by Mr Justice Ormerod to be hanged. Dernley later related that Inglis practically ran to his execution, following the prison guard's advice to go quickly and "without fuss".

Inglis's execution is featured in the 2006 film Pierrepoint; although Inglis's name is not mentioned, the character "Maximovsky" was supposed to represent him.

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Further reading

  • Dernley & Newman, The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner, Trans-Atlantic Publications, 1990