On 2 July, Evans's mother wrote to Christie asking him to "confess all".On 8 July 1953 his MP George Rogers interviewed Christie for 45 minutes about the murders. Five days later Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe said that he could not find any grounds for Christie to be reprieved. Christie's final visitors were an ex-army friend Dennis Hague on 13 July along with the Prison Governor and Christie's sister Phyllis Clarke, who both visited Christie the night before the execution.George Rogers wanted to speak to Christie a second time on the night before his execution but Christie refused to meet him again.