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Robert Andrew McGladdery (1936–20 December 1961) was the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland.He was convicted of the murder of Pearl Gamble aged 19 whom he had battered strangled and stabbed to death on 28 January 1961 and left her body at Upper Damolly near Newry County Down. It transpired the murderer and victim were distant cousins. Pearl Gamble had gone to a dance at the Henry Thomson Memorial Orange Hall in Newry with three girlfriends.