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Murderers or Martyrs.
Charged with the "Cranborne Road murder" of Wavertree widow Alice Rimmer, two Manchester youths were hastily condemned by a Liverpool jury on the police-orchestrated lies of a criminal and two malleable young women. George Skelly's detailed account of the warped trial, predictable app...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterside Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; About the Author; The author of the Foreword; Acknowledgements; Witness Statements; Foreword By Lord Goldsmith; Preface; Introduction; Prologue; CONSPIRACY; The Fateful Journey to Liverpool; Murder at No. 7 and the First Suspect; Balmer Takes Control; The Conspiracy Begins; Devlin and Burns Arrested and Charged with Murder; The Committal Proceedings Commence; The Hearing is Postponed; The Committal Hearing Continues; More Damning Prosecution Evidence; Police Give Their Evidence; A Meeting in the Cells with the Hatchet Man; The Prison Letters (or Home Thoughts from Abroad)
- More Balmer-Planted Press StoriesDAMNATION; The Trial Begins; The Case for the Crown; More Lies; PICTURE SECTION; Marie Milne in the Witness Box; More Crown Witnesses in the Box; Thomas Rimmer's Version; The "Expert" Witness Testifies; Balmer's Boys in the Box; Rose Heilbron Opens the Defence Case; Devlin (and the Cosh) in the Witness Box; Death of Juror's Mother Causes Postponement of the Trial; Alan Campbell Testifies in Support of the Accuseds' Alibi; Where are Alan Campbell's Statement and His Indictment?; Burns' Examination-In-Chief by Junior Counsel
- "If I Were You Burns I Should Try Not to be Clever"
- JudgeGoldie QC Acting More Like the Prosecutor; Heilbron's Closing Speech for Devlin; "He May be a Thief ... "; Goldie and the Relevance of George Bernard Shaw's "Joan of Arc"; Summing-Up, Verdict and Sentence; How "Expert" is the Expert Witness Evidence?; The Appeal and "Justice-in-a-Jiffy" Goddard; A One-Man Private Inquiry is Ordered; Last Minute Pleading in Vain; Epilogue and the Shame of the CCRC; Index; The Cardiff Five; The Cameo Conspiracy; Back cover