JUSTICE TRIUMPHANT

Hardback. It's possible that the author's name has been misspelled and could be 'Felding' not 'Fielding'. A true crime anthology examining notorious British miscarriages of justice. It features cases like Thompson and Bywaters (1922), where Edith Thompson was controversially executed for her husband’s murder despite weak evidence of incitement; Evans and Christie (1950), where Timothy Evans was wrongly hanged for murders later attributed to serial killer John Christie; Steinie Morrison (1911), convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence; and Adolf Beck (1896–1904), imprisoned for fraud due to mistaken identity, plus others, with some miscarriages of justice from other centuries. The author’s narrative critiques systemic flaws in the justice system, highlighting prejudiced trials and evidential errors, but maintains that, at the time of publication, the British justice system does not convict innocent people. With Index. 167pp. 8vo. h/back. With tiny label to fpd, v. lightly foxed fore-edge, sl. sunned sp. Vg.