Murderers or Martyrs - Skelly, George

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Résumé :
A spell-binding account of an appalling miscarriage of justice. 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 prostitutes. George Skelly's detailed account of the warped trial, predictable appeal result courtesy of 'hanging judge' Lord Goddard and the whitewash secret inquiry will enrage all who believe in justice. And if the men's prison letters (including from the condemned cells) sometimes make you laugh, they will make you weep far longer. Following his masterful expos? of injustice in the Cameo Cinema murder case in 1950s Liverpool described in his book The Cameo Conspiracy, George Skelly now reveals a second police conspiracy-two years later in the same city involving the same senior detective-which this time led to the execution of two young men. In 2011, faced with countless proven contradictions and errors plus substantial previously undisclosed evidence, the Criminal Cases Review Commission unbelievably side-stepped the opportunity to refer this gross injustice to the Court of Appeal. So until justice is finally done, Teddy Devlin and Alfie Burns still lie together beneath the staff car park at Walton Prison, their only trace a tiny plaque numbered 55. 'A very powerful case of a miscarriage of justice': Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith PC QC As featured in the Liverpool Echo. Author George Skelly is also the author of The Cameo Conspiracy (3rd edition Waterside Press, 2011) about an equally disturbing case where an innocent man was hanged in a famous miscarriage of justice....

Biographie:
George Skelly, the youngest in a family of eleven, left school at 15, an 11-plus failure, and was later educated at Ruskin College Oxford and Liverpool University, graduating with joint honours in English & History. The author of several short stories and his soon-to-be-published novel, The Most Familiar Face In The World, he is also the author of the Waterside Press publication, Murderers Or Martyrs, about a second miscarriage of justice two years later....

Sommaire:
George Skelly, the youngest in a family of eleven, left school at 15, an 11-plus failure, and was later educated at Ruskin College Oxford and Liverpool University, graduating with joint honours in English & History. The author of several short stories and his soon-to-be-published novel, The Most Familiar Face In The World, he is also the author of the Waterside Press publication, Murderers Or Martyrs, about a second miscarriage of justice two years later....

' A very powerful case of a miscarriage of justice': Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith PC QC