Bush was born to an English mother and an Asian father and was taken into care at age 12 after his living conditions were deemed to be horrific.
[3] On March 16 Bush and his 17-year-old blonde girlfriend Janet were in Central London, having recently sold the ornamental dress sword.
As they walked up Old Compton Street PC Arthur Cole spotted the couple looking in a shop window and recognised Bush from the Identikit images.
Bush was arrested and interviewed by police; he claimed innocence but his palm print was found on the dagger, his fingerprints on the sword and a shoeprint at the scene of the murder matched the shoes he was wearing.
Bush was sentenced to death on 12 May 1961 by Mr Justice Stevenson, under section 5 of the Homicide Act 1957, charged with “murder in the course or furtherance of theft”, and hanged at Pentonville on 6 July 1961 by Harry Allen.