He helped
Margaret Ward arrange the escape of Richard Watson from
Bridewell Prison when the boatman she had originally asked to help her refused to do so. Roche exchanged clothes with the prisoner and was arrested in his place. Offered his freedom if he would ask
Queen Elizabeth I's pardon and promise to attend a
Protestant church, he refused, and was hanged at
Tyburn, London on 30 August 1588, along with
Ward,
Edward Shelley,
Richard Martin, and
Richard Leigh and Richard Lloyd (alias Flower). ==Veneration==