Who? Jenny Wiltshire, head of serious and general crime, Hickman & Rose, London.
Why is she in the news? Represented Courtney Harriot, Paul Green and Cleveland Davidson, who were convicted nearly 50 years ago of attempting to rob a British Transport Police (BTP) officer. The Court of Appeal overturned their convictions this month.
Thoughts on the case: ‘My clients were young men when they were convicted on the word of corrupt police officer DS Derek Ridgewell. They are now in their late-60s. The extraordinary, near-50-year delay in achieving justice is particularly shocking when you consider that concerns about Ridgewell were raised as early as 1973, when he featured in a BBC Nationwide programme Cause for Concern. During the 1970s there were repeated calls for the Home Office to investigate his activities but the BTP simply moved Ridgewell sideways to a unit investigating mailbag theft. Even after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal mailbags in 1980 and was sentenced to sev
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The union was not condoned by Catherine’s family, who turned her out when they realised she was romantically attached to the guardsman who earned a living selling pamphlets and ballads.
But Catherine was enchanted by the charismatic, handsome Irishman and the pair began a life together travelling from town to town on foot and sleeping rough – by the time she left her family’s care, she was already pregnant.
Their speciality was writing and selling ‘gallows ballads’, on one occasion the couple hawked such a publication at the execution of Catherine’s cousin, Charles Christopher Robinson, 18, who was hanged in Stafford after being found guilty of cutting the throat of his sweetheart in 1866.
The union was not condoned by Catherine’s family, who turned her out when they realised she was romantically attached to the guardsman who earned a living selling pamphlets and ballads.
But Catherine was enchanted by the charismatic, handsome Irishman and the pair began a life together travelling from town to town on foot and sleeping rough – by the time she left her family’s care, she was already pregnant.
Their speciality was writing and selling ‘gallows ballads’, on one occasion the couple hawked such a publication at the execution of Catherine’s cousin, Charles Christopher Robinson, 18, who was hanged in Stafford after being found guilty of cutting the throat of his sweetheart in 1866.