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Cargando... Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justicepor Kevin Morgan
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. There are two horriffic crimes described in this book, firstly the brutal violation and murder of a little girl, then the horribly botched execution of an innocent man. No-one comes off looking good in this book, not the police, not the courts, not the untrustworthy witnesses who sent an innocent man to the gallows, and certainly not the society that allowed this double tragedy to happen. Not a pleasant book to read by any means, but extremely well-written, exhaustively researched and captures the flavour of the times very well. ( ) Gun Alley was a very interesting read, if a little back and forth in the telling. The way it jumped from this person to that and back again and from this time to that and back made it a little confusing. However, the inclusion of real court transcripts helped to clarify some matters. It is always easy to criticise from hindsight, with modern knowledge and procedure behind us, but it seems to me that, even by contemporary standards, this case was ineptly handled. There are gaping holes in evidence, witnesses changing stories (or outright ignored) and sloppy police work. It's almost as though the police had a suspect in mind and tailored the case to fit. I am a supporter of the death penalty, but this case highlights why it should never be used on a first offence. It is a shame that the first time forensic matching of hair was used to gain a conviction in Australia, it led to a grave miscarriage of justice. Despite the sometimes confusing format, Gun Alley is definitely worth reading. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In the early morning of New Year's Eve 1921, 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's naked body was found in Gun Alley, a dead-end Melbourne lane. She had been raped and strangled. In an atmosphere of public frenzy, the police were pushed to find a culprit and charged saloonkeeper Colin Ross with her murder. Rapidly convicted, and with his appeals to higher courts rejected, Ross was hanged - protesting his innocence to the end. Researching the case in 1995, author Kevin Morgan stumbled upon an envelope containing critical evidence: hair samples. During the trial the prosecution claimed hairs found on Ross's blanket matched a sample of Alma's hair. This was the first time such forensic evidence brought a conviction in Australia. Re-examination by modern-day experts has proven the hairs do not match ... Gun Alley is the riveting story of how botched policework, trial by media and lynch-law hysteria spawned a staggering conspiracy to convict and hang an innocent man, and reveals for the first time the vital clues-missed in the original investigation-that point, more than 90 years on, to the true killer. Now updated, this edition documents the extraordinary events leading to the historic pardon and charts the aftermath for the Ross and Tirtschke families as a hanged man's body is recovered from an unmarked prison grave ... 'Gun Alley is a masterwork of forensic detection.' - Ian Jones 'This is a winner ... a book written from the heart ...' - Kerry Greenwood No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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