From the high seas to the Leith gallows

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: August 30, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The 36-year-old 'aristocrat of piracy' from North Berwick marched to the gallows in the blazing African heat. With the fatalistic swagger expected of a pirate of his stature, 'Lord' John Sympson led the procession of 53 men to the hangman's noose.

But suddenly he recognised a woman amongst the jeering crowd who he had abused repeatedly after seizing a ship on which she was a passenger. He lost his composure and snarled: "She has come to see me hanged."

Sympson's body was tarred and hung in chains on the hill above the castle to rot in the sweltering heat. It was a grisly end befitting of the ...

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