Blind Justice: Miscarriages of Justice in Twentieth-Century Britain?,9781851093434

Blind Justice: Miscarriages of Justice in Twentieth-Century Britain?

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ISBN13: 9781851093434
ISBN10: 1851093435
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Abc-Clio Inc
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Summary

This fascinating book examines 50 capital crimes committed in Great Britain in the 20th century in which the accused was found guilty and either executed or sentenced to life imprisonment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
Introduction xiii
Louisa Josephine Jemima Masset, 1900
1(12)
Herbert John Bennett, 1901
13(14)
John Harrison, 1901
27(6)
Arthur Devereux, 1905
33(8)
Richard Clifford Brinkley, 1907
41(8)
John William Ellwood, 1908
49(6)
Abel Atherton, 1909
55(6)
John Alexander Dickman, 1910
61(12)
Steinie Morrison, 1911
73(10)
George Loake, 1911
83(6)
Frederick Henry Seddon, 1912
89(12)
Ernest Edwin Kelly, 1913
101(6)
Thomas Clinton, 1917
107(6)
William Thomas Hodgson, 1917
113(8)
Henry Beckett (alias Perry), 1919
121(8)
Edwin Sowerby, 1920
129(4)
Edith Jessie Thompson, 1923
133(10)
John Norman Holmes Thorne, 1925
143(8)
Johannes Josephus Cornelius Mommers, 1926
151(6)
Bertram Horace Kirby, 1928
157(6)
Frederick Guy Browne, 1928
163(10)
George Fratson, 1929
173(8)
Henry Daniel Seymour, 1931
181(10)
Peter Queen, 1932
191(6)
George Alfred Rice, 1932
197(6)
William Burtoft, 1933
203(10)
David Maskill Blake, 1935
213(10)
Charlotte Bryant, 1936
223(6)
Robert William Hoolhouse, 1938
229(10)
Joseph Myatt, 1939
239(8)
David Miller Jennings, 1941
247(4)
Howard Joseph Grossley, 1945
251(8)
Martin Patrick Coffey, 1946
259(4)
Walter Graham Rowland, 1947
263(14)
Sydney Archibald Frederick Chamberlain, 1949
277(4)
Timothy John Evans, 1950
281(12)
Patrick Turnage, 1950
293(6)
Dennis Albert Reginald Moore, 1951
299(6)
Mahmood Hussein Mattan, 1952
305(8)
Derek William Bentley, 1953
313(12)
Desmond Donald Hooper, 1954
325(8)
Frank Stokes, 1958
333(6)
James Hanratty, 1962
339(18)
Colin Lattimore, Ronald Leighton and Ahmet Salih, 1972
357(4)
Judith Minna Theresa Ward, 1974
361(8)
The Guildford Four, 1975
369(10)
The Birmingham Six, 1975
379(10)
Stefan Ivan Kiszko, 1976
389(10)
The Bridgewater Four, 1979
399(10)
The Cardiff Three, 1990
409(6)
Recommended Further Reading 415(2)
Assizes Documents and Newspapers 417(2)
Index 419

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