Convicted

Landmark Cases in British Criminal History

Gary Powell

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445670539
• Subtopic: Criminal Procedure
• Index: Social Sciences

Two elderly shopkeepers bludgeoned to death, the only evidence – a smudged thumbprint inside a cashbox. A Quaker poisons his mistress in Slough and, confident he will evade justice, arrives at Paddington station unaware modern technology had alerted police who lay in wait. Great Britain has led the world in crime-detection methods and the forensic sciences; this volume examines real criminal cases that have tested the legality and admissibility of these crime-fighting methods as they pass through the British legal system. Together with many other examples encompassing police corruption, ballistics, entomology and riot, to name but a few, this volume demonstrates how crime has influenced present-day policing methods, Britain's criminal justice system and ultimately the detection and conviction of some of this country's most infamous men and women.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Introduction
• 1. The King’s Head (1649)
• 2. Where’s the Body? (1660)
• 3. Well Done That Man (1670)
• 4. The Weight of Justice (1721)
• 5. Cut up in the Name of Science (1752)
• 6. Ouch! That Hurts (1782)
• 7. You Put Your Foot in It (1787)
• 8. Who Would Be a Woman? (1788)
• 9. Forget Justice, Let’s Have a Fight (1817)
• 10. Trial by Media (1823)
• 11. Justice – But Not for You, Officer! (1830)
• 12. The M’Naghten Rule (1843)
• 13. Faster than a Speeding Train (1845)
• 14. Good Plan, but … (1848)
• 15. Not a Wife, Just a Punchbag (1853)
• 16. Prince of Poisoners (1855)
• 17. What’s Mine Is Yours (1858)
• 18. Quack Quack (1859)
• 19. A Bit over the Top, Sir! (1860)
• 20. Is That a Rabbit in Your Pocket, Sir? (1862)
• 21. Who Really Killed Jessie McPherson? (1862)
• 22. The First Railway Murder (1864)
• 23. Why Didn’t You Speak up, Doc? (1865)
• 24. Not Enough Room to Swing – Well, Anything (1866)
• 25. Got the Needle (1868)
• 26. The Last Public Execution (1868)
• 27. The Dark Angel of the North (1872)
• 28. We Are a Nation of Animal Lovers After All! (1876)
• 29. Morgan’s Nose Saves the Day (1876)
• 30. Doctors to the Rescue (1877)
• 31. Coppers on the Take (1877)
• 32. Murder on the Brighton Line (1881)
• 33. What Would You Have Done? (1884)
• 34. He Could Have Been Saved by the Skin of His … (1895)
• 35. Have You Had a Drink, Sir? (1897)
• 36. Deaf but not Dumb (1900)
• 37. ‘All Right Governor, I’ll Go Quiet’ (1902)
• 38. Oh Brother! (1905)
• 39. Let Me Have My Say (1907)
• 40. My Ship Was Faster Than Your Ship (1910)
• 41. The Respectable Spy (1914)
• 42. Girl Power (1920)
• 43. Free Speech – There’s a Limit (1921)
• 44. Just Sit Down and Be Quiet (1924)
• 45. One Law for Us … (1925)
• 46. The Appliance of Science (1927)
• 47. She Gave It Her Best Shot (1928)
• 48. Murder of a Victim Unknown (1930)
• 49. A Setback for Free Speech (1934)
• 50. It All Turned on a Loaf of Bread (1934)
• 51. Prove It (1934)
• 52. Maggots and a Newspaper (1935)
• 53. The Fascist Newsvendor (1937)
• 54. 999 Emergency (1937)
• 55. Murder on the Tube (1939)
• 56. From Rowing Boat to the Gallows (1940)
• 57. It was Him – No, It was Him! (1942)
• 58. Two Lost Souls (1942)
• 59. All Froth and Mirrors (1944)
• 60. A Good-Time Girl (1948)
• 61. Fingerprints Gentlemen Please (1948)
• 62. Murder! Where’s the Body? (1949)
• 63. Life Should Mean Life (1952)
• 64. It Really Wasn’t Me (1952)
• 65. The Case of the Great Toe Print (1952)
• 66. Was he Britain’s Most Prolific Serial Killer? (1957)
• 67. Turn Up the Radio and I will Go Quietly (1958)
• 68. Putting a Face to the Suspect (1961)
• 69. Cruelty beyond Belief (1963)
• 70. A Killer’s New Life (1968)
• 71. Turnbull (1976)
• 72. Is that a Hammer in your Pocket? (1976)
• 73. A Decade of Pain (1981)
• 74. An Inspirational Woman (1986)
• 75. Remember Leicester for DNA, not Crisps (1987)
• 76. Just When You Thought You’d Got Away With It (1989)
• 77. A Victim, Not a Killer (1989)
• 78. You’re Telling Lies, my Son (1991)
• 79. BBC’s Crimewatch – The First Case (1994)
• 80. The Law Catches Up (1994)
• 81. Did You ’Ear the One about… (1996)
• 82. Long on Memory (1999)
• 83. A Plan to Kill his Own People (2000)
• 84. An Evil Uncle (2001)
• 85. Killed Just Doing His Job (2003)
• 86. Well Done, Your Honour (2005)
• 87. A Judge but no Jury (2009)
• 88. Bats Rule the Roost (2011)
• 89. Murder on the Small Screen (2013)
• 90. Berlingo Bingo (2014)
• 91. I Just Can’t Remember (2015)
• 92. A Tale of Two Women (2015)
• 93. There’s a Lot of Money in Veg (2015)
• 94. Thirty Years of Misinterpretation (2015)
• 95. A Humiliating Crime (2015)
• 96. Look Behind you and Smile for the Camera (2015)
• 97. Have You Never Heard of the Minimum Wage? (2016)
• 98. An Illegal High (2016)
• 99. Blinks into Words (2017)
• 100. Britain’s Longest-Running Trial (2017)
• Plates
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography