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Sworn enemies: the real story of Old Bailey clash that ruined Oscar Wilde Dalya Alberge © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Apic/Getty Images He was the brilliant lawyer whose brutal 1895 cross-examination of Oscar Wilde in one of the most famous trials in British history led to the Irish dramatist’s imprisonment for homosexuality, and to his ultimate ruin. Now a previously unpublished letter reveals that Sir Edward Carson’s attack on Wilde in the Old Bailey was partly personal – a loathing that went beyond his job in defending the Marquess of Queensberry in the ill-fated libel case. © Photograph: Apic/Getty Images

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