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Author Eddleston, John J., 1952-

Title Blind justice : miscarriages of justice in twentieth-century Britain? / John J. Eddleston
Published Oxford, England : ABC-Clio, [2000]
©2000

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Description xiv, 445 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents Louisa Josephine Jemima Masset, 1900 -- Herbert John Bennett, 1901 -- John Harrison, 1901 -- Arthur Devereux, 1905 -- Richard Clifford Brinkley, 1907 -- John William Ellwood, 1908 -- Abel Atherton, 1909 -- John Alexander Dickman, 1910 -- Steinie Morrison, 1911 -- George Loake, 1911 -- Frederick Henry Seddon, 1912 -- Ernest Edwin Kelly, 1913 -- Thomas Clinton, 1917 -- William Thomas Hodgson, 1917 -- Henry Beckett (alias Perry), 1919 -- Edwin Sowerby, 1920 -- Edith Jessie Thompson, 1923 -- John Norman Holmes Thorne, 1925 -- Johannes Josephus Cornelius Mommers, 1926 -- Bertram Horace Kirby, 1928 -- Frederick Guy Browne, 1928 -- George Fratson, 1929 -- Henry Daniel Seymour, 1931 -- Peter Queen, 1932 -- George Alfred Rice, 1932 -- William Burtoft, 1933 -- David Maskill Blake, 1935 -- Charlotte Bryant, 1936 -- Robert William Hoolhouse, 1938 -- Joseph Myatt, 1939 -- David Miller Jennings, 1941 -- Howard Joseph Grossley, 1945
Martin Patrick Coffey, 1946 -- Walter Graham Rowland, 1947 -- Sydney Archibald Frederick Chamberlain, 1949 -- Timothy John Evans, 1950 -- Patrick Turnage, 1950 -- Dennis Albert Reginald Moore, 1951 -- Mahmood Hussein Mattan, 1952 -- Derek William Bentley, 1953 -- Desmond Donald Hooper, 1954 -- Frank Stokes, 1958 -- James Hanratty, 1962 -- Colin Lattimore, Ronald Leighton and Ahmet Salih, 1972 -- Judith Minna Theresa Ward, 1974 -- The Guilford Four, 1975 -- The Birmingham Six, 1975 -- Stefan Ivan Kiszko, 1976 -- The Bridgewater Four, 1979 -- The Cardiff Three, 1990
Summary This book examines 50 crimes where the accused was found guilty and either executed or sentenced to life imprisonment; in each case it is asserted that there was reasonable doubt, either as to the guilt or the sanity of the accused
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Judicial error -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Judicial error -- Great Britain -- Cases.
Genre/Form History.
Trials, litigation, etc.
ISBN 1851093435 :
1851093338 paperback
Other Titles Miscarriages of justice in twentieth-century Britain?