Dafydd was found guilty of treason. He was sentenced to be the first person in British history to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. This was a horrible way to die, as Dafydd found out firsthand. Having been taken from his prison cell at Rhuddlan Castle in north Wales, he was dragged behind a horse to the scaffold in Shrewsbury, where he was strung up by his neck and left to struggle and choke for a while. Then he was cut down by the executioner, a townsman called Geoffrey, who proceeded to slice out his intestines with a butcher’s blade. Only then was Dafydd put out of his misery: beheaded and
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