Court Number One - The Trials and Scandals that Shocked Modern Britain (Grant Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR''Superbly told'' Simon Heffer, DailyTelegraph''A hamper of treats'' Sunday Telegraph''[Grant employs] scholarship and depth of evidence'' London Review of Books''These tales of eleven trials are shocking, squalid, titillating and illuminating: each of them says something fascinating about how our society once was'' The Times''Deceptively thrilling'' Sunday Times''Excellent . . . Thomas Grant offers detailed accounts of eleven cases at the Old Bailey''s Court Number One, with protagonists ranging from the diabolical to the pathetic. There is humour . . . but this is ultimately an affecting study of how the law gets it right - and wrong'' GuardianCourt Number One of the Old Bailey is the most famous court room in the world, and the venue of some of the most sensational human dramas ever to be played out in a criminal trial.The principal criminal court of England, historically reserved for the more serious and high-profile trials, Court Number One opened its doors in 1907 after the building of the ''new'' Old Bailey. In the decades that followed it witnessed the trials of the most famous and infamous defendants of the twentieth century. It was here that the likes of Madame Fahmy, Lord Haw Haw, John Christie, Ruth Ellis, George Blake (and his unlikely jailbreakers, Michael Randle and Pat Pottle), Jeremy Thorpe and Ian Huntley were defined in history, alongside a wide assortment of other traito
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