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Gnade für Timothy Evans (1969)
The case of Timothy Evans was the first major post-war miscarriage of justice to capture public attention. Of low intelligence, Evans was damned by his own, false confession that he had murdered his wife and daughter. The trial and rightful conviction of John Christie for one of these murders three years later, did not, however, bring about a pardon for Evans. Despite having four alibi witnesses, the 28-year-sailor, who was described by his own defence lawyer as a "semi-civilised savage", was convicted and executed within six months of the murder. Three years after Mr Evans was hanged, John Christie, a neighbour in the house at 10 Rillington Place, confessed to strangling eight female victims - including Beryl and her baby daughter. He too was executed. It was to be many years before the judiciary and the government were to finally allow the late Timothy Evans a pardon.
Updated May 31 2020
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Friedrich G. Beckhaus
John Christie
Andrea Grosske
Lady
Hans-Peter Korff
Curtis-Bennet
Josef Fröhlich
Timothy Evans
Rudolf Möller
Finemore
Ernst G. Schiffner
Lewis
Wolfram Schaerf
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Korbinian Köberle
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