The day the king died : a terrible miscarriage of justice / Jim Morris ; with a foreword by Glyn Maddocks

Author: Morris, Jim
Published: Hampshire, England : Waterside Press, 2015.
Copyright Date: ©2015
Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations, map
Additional Creators: Maddocks, Glyn

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Front cover; Copyright and publication details; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the Author; The Author of the Foreword; Foreword; Introduction; Beginning; The Burglar; Police; Shooting; Police Constable Jagger; Arrest; Hospital; Identification; Police Evidence; Consistency; Family; Evidence; The Farm; Mistakes; Misdeeds; Doubt; Saturday Night; On Remand; The Trial; Defence Evidence; The Prosecution; The Defence; Withheld or Ignored Evidence; Some Thoughts on the Summing-up; The Run Up to the Appeal and its Aftermath; The Rest of February 1952 and On; Index and Putting justice into words: Also from Waterside PressMurderers or Martyrs; The Cameo Conspiracy: A Shocking True Story ofMurder and Injustice; The Cardiff Five: Innocent Beyond Any Doubt; The Colour of Injustice: The Mysterious Murder of theDaughter of a High Court Judge; Rough Justice: Citizens' Experiences ofMistreatment and Injusticein the Early Stages of LawEnforcement; The First Miscarriage of Justice: The 'Unreported and Amazing'Case of Tony Stock; Back cover

Summary

There was a quaint British convention under which executions were stopped and sentence commuted if scheduled to take place on the day the sovereign died. Alfred Moore was doubly unfortunate: still protesting his innocence he was on the scaffold an hour before the death of King George VI was announced.

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9781908162861 (electronic bk.)
1908162864 (electronic bk.)
9781908162878 (electronic bk.)
1908162872 (electronic bk.)
9781909976139

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Includes index.

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